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TIL Both Mozart and Michael Jackson were born the seventh child in a very musical family. Both missed out on a normal childhood, spending the entire time immersed in a punishing regime of practicing, touring and performing, all imposed by a strict father

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BrdMr TIL Even 84 years after her death, Marie Curie's possessions still remain radioactive enough that protective clothing are required to handle them.
bOvZ TIL there is a couple in the US who have a 20 year-old child who has never aged physically or mentally past the toddler stage
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ANK8x TIL haggis has been banned from being imported into the US since 1971 due to a ban on food containing sheep lung