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TIL WoW was reverse engineered on private servers to bypass the monthly subscription fee

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pYeQb TIL about the American Fotoplayer, which was a player piano that combined a piano and an organ plus percussion instruments used to add music and sound effects to silent movies. I also learned that the "circus song" is actually a military march called Entry of the Gladiators
4Xbpo TIL Florence Nightingale's god-daughter was beaten to death on a train in 1920 and her murder has never been solved.
4N7b TIL Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers hated the film Adaption of her book so much, she spent most of the premiere crying and refused to let Disney touch the rest of the series.
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