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TIL Japan's prime minister sends you a silver cup when you turn 100

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8ayJP TIL in 1968, at just 20 years old, Fred Hampton brokered a nonaggression pact among Chicago's most powerful street gangs and organized a multiracial "Rainbow coalition" to help end infighting and push for social change. He was then murdered in his sleep by the FBI.
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41pg TIL that Mozart disliked Adriana Ferrarese del Bene due to her arrogance. Knowing that she has the tendency to drop her chin on low notes and throw back her head on high notes, Così fan tutte was made just to make her head “bob like a chicken” onstage.