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TIL Prince shares several songwriting credits with his father

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LQX70 TIL the earliest existing record of a telescope was a 1608 patent submitted to the government in the Netherlands by Middelburg spectacle maker Hans Lipperhey. The actual inventor is unknown but word of it spread through Europe. Galileo heard about it and, in 1609, built his own version.
NXPNJ TIL That a man in Florida woke up with a splitting migraine. When he arrives at the hospital, doctors found a bullet in his head. His wife had shot him in the head while he slept.
O8e7 TIL the Turkish general who enacted the 1997 coup, which freed Turkey from its last Islamist government, was arrested for that “crime” in 2012 by Erdogans government.
Q0gL TIL that DeVry University is a publicly traded corporation whose goal, above all others, is to make a profit.
XDLR TIL that the Spongebob Squarepants theme-song is a popular marching cadence in the Russian armed forces.