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TIL The bumblebee bat is the world’s smallest mammal

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gMZXL TIL that Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture is considered the first "diss track", as well as being the first recorded use of firearms in a piece of music. These both stem from the cannons at the song's climax, which were representative of the Napoleonic Army's own cannons being turned against them.
LQNp TIL that the canned pumpkin most people use for pumpkin pie is actually just butternut squash.
Z855B TIL of Hans Rott, a composer that went into an insane asylum after pulling a gun on a train because he thought Johannes Brahms loaded the car with dynamite. Although he died young, Rott wrote a symphony (Symphony in E) that Gustav Mahler plagiarized in his own first two symphonies.
QJ4Qa TIL in 1956 writer Harper Lee received an envelope from family and friends with a year’s salary in it. it read “you have one year off from your job to write whatever you want. Merry Christmas.” She wrote to Kill a Mockingbird which won the Pulitzer Prize and sold over 30 million copies worldwide.
GAXwg TIL that Some octopus species lay 56,000 eggs at a time. These eggs are teardrop shaped, milky, and braided together in bunches by the female. Both male and female octopus die after reproduction.