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TIL about 'brain fuck' a programming language that it has only 8 valid characters

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GY857 TIL Winfield Scott developed the Anaconda Plan, capture the Mississippi River and blockade Southern ports, but it was derided by most Northern newspapers and Scott eventually left Lincoln's administration. Ultimately Grant used a strategy similar to Scott's Anaconda Plan to win the Civil War.
dD6dK TIL Vincent Price did about 400 recordings for The Hilarious House of Frightenstein in four days and for about $13,000 in 1971, his standard appearance fee. The show itself only ran for one season.
ONBR TIL that while Beethoven was going deaf, he composed more music with low notes. This was because he had to put his head close to his piano to feel the vibrations. After going completely deaf, his compositions contained more high notes - because he simply began composing directly from his head.
Aw0a TIL Darth Vader lost an arm/hand 7 times in total
b70 TIL the crew of the Mayflower II cast a message in a bottle overboard in 1957 that was signed by all of them, including Felix the kitten, with promise of reward. No one knew the whereabouts of the message until it was found at a flea market earlier this year.