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TIL that Stephen Sondheim co-wrote a "non-musical/straight play" with George Furth, the book writer for "Company." The play was a whodunit called "Getting Away with Murder" and it ran for 29 previews and 17 performances at the Broadhurst Theater in 1996.

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OGbm4 TIL that on 27 April 1865 the steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi, killing about 1,700 mostly Union POWs—the deadliest maritime disaster in U.S. history
loP7V TIL about Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the US, celebrated on June 19th.
Z8KvR TIL about the cookiecutter shark. The name refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, as if cut with a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine life, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies!
MmR7 TIL that despite harsh punishments, many Germans ridiculed “Heil Hitler”, some saying “Ein Liter” instead, and others sarcastically responding with “Is He Sick?” because of the identical pronunciations of “Heil” and “Heal”.
8oKZ TIL that the children of identical twins test genetically as half-siblings instead of first cousins