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TIL for over 18 years a Japanese composer pretended to be deaf and paid a ghostwriter to compose his music. Time magazine called him a “digital-age Beethoven”.

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grMyy TIL Kids used to come up to Theodor Seuss Geisel's door saying that they want to meet Dr. Seuss. They didn't believe it when Geisel said "I'm Dr. Seuss", staring until his wife gave them cookies. Geisel had a fear of audiences, often declining requests to appear in public
6E8XQ TIL a UK study found that in divorce cases, husbands engaged in affairs in 75% of cases, wives in 25% of cases. 53% of divorces were marriages that lasted 10-15 years, 40% ending after 5-10 years. The study found that if a marriage survives over 20 years it is unlikely to end in divorce.
4XowJ TIL there was once a Viking king who ruled as the King of England...for about 5 weeks.
74J7 TIL: In 1922 the New York Times published an article on Hitler in which the author argued that “Hitler’s anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers.”
mxZ6E TIL: Take any prime number above 3 and square it then -1 and it will always be a multiple of 24!