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TIL That the Vatican tried to keep The Miserere for itself by forbidding any publications or copies from being made. Plan worked for over 100 years until a 14 year old Mozart came along and reproduced it faithfully from memory.

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YpLgW TIL when President Polk asked Congress to declare war on Mexico citing that it had "shed American blood upon the American soil", then-Representative Abraham Lincoln protested with resolutions demanding to know the "particular spot of soil on which the blood of our citizens was so shed."
MVb7 TIL n 2008, hydroelectric power contributed to 98.5% of Norwegian power generation.
J1dAk TIL; There were no women special agents in the FBI from 1928 to 1972, as J Edgar Hoover banned the recruitment of women in 1924 and eased out the 3 women agents serving at that time
698Om TIL the Music Group Jethro Thull was named after a Eighteen Century British Agriculturist who invented the seed drill
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