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TIL Mozart had Tourette’s syndrome. 11 out of 25 people that were associated with him talked about “his perpetual movements and mannerisms, which were regarded as facial and bodily tics”.

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P0nO TIL that Sid Vicious was such a poor bassist that when performing with the Sex Pistols his band mates would often unplug his amplifier mid-performance.
8jDa TIL people with red hair are more sensitive to thermal pain, are less sensitive to electrically induced pain, and require larger amounts of anesthetics than people without red hair due to a mutation in their melanocortin 1 receptor.
DdGP TIL mustard and wasabi aren’t spicy until crushed. Only when the plant’s cells are damaged can two otherwise harmless components mix and produce allyl isothiocyanate, the compound responsible for the familiar pungent taste.
4X666 TIL in 1977 a group of Chicago Sun-Times journalists bought a dive bar and used it as a front to uncover and expose political corruption and payoffs.
neeN7 TIL Stalin ordered the assassination of John Wayne. Stalin was angered by John Wayne’s anti-communist rhetoric and ordered the KGB to kill him. John Wayne learned of the plot from from Orson Wells and the FBI. Wayne worked with some stuntmen friends and foiled several attempts on his life.