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TIL that William Henry Harrison only spent a month in office.

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4XgAN TIL Antony Hopkins composed a waltz in 1964 that was only released years later. The famous actor was afraid that nobody would like it and therefore never got to hear it being played up until 2011 thanks to André Rieu - a Dutch violinist who got sent the music sheets by Hopkins' wife.
jpbN TIL that a woman in the UK was sent to three years in prison for wasting police time after reporting a sexual assault. This is despite the fact that “the police had documented the injuries to the back of her head and breasts, the black eye, the bleeding from her vagina.”
xeV0 TIL Internet Explorer has a website created solely to convince you to use it again.
YpjmW TIL heroin was often smuggled into the united states on the corps of fallen soldiers
OGLL4 TIL sphynx cats were developed from cats with genetic mutations after 1960s