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TIL the manager and producer of The Rolling Stones failed to see potential in Jimi Hendrix

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wr08 TIL Mozart had a “startling fondness” for poop jokes, which is preserved in his surviving letters.
bEME TIL There was an unlicensed game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System called Somari, which was a derived copy of Sonic the Hedgehog that featured Mario instead. The name Somari came from SOnic and MARIo.
K866 TIL Hacker Kevin Mitnick spent 8 months of his prison sentence in solitary confinement because law enforcement officials convinced a judge that he could start a nuclear war by whistling into a pay phone.
b9OPp TIL "Roses are red/Violets are blue" dates back to 1590 with the lines: "In a fresh fountaine, farre from all mens vew//She bath'd her brest, the boyling heat t'allay;// She bath'd with roses red, and violets blew,// And all the sweetest flowres, that in the forrest grew."
woDMo TIL that the Basilica, a cannon used to besiege Constantinople, was so powerful that its recoil killed its own operators