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| |TIL that in the 1630s there was a song only played in the Sistine chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of "Miserere Mei, Deus" secret for 150 years,until 14-year old Mozart listened to it 2 times, transcribed it from memory and produced the first unauthorized copy.Earliest record of music piracy|[[wp>Miserere_(Allegri)|]]| | |TIL that in the 1630s there was a song only played in the Sistine chapel. The Vatican kept the composition of "Miserere Mei, Deus" secret for 150 years,until 14-year old Mozart listened to it 2 times, transcribed it from memory and produced the first unauthorized copy.Earliest record of music piracy|[[wp>Miserere_(Allegri)|]]| |
| |If NASA had the US military's annual budget, what would it be capable of achieving?|[[:information:funfacts:funfacts:nasa_with_us_military_budget|]]| | |If NASA had the US military's annual budget, what would it be capable of achieving?|[[:information:funfacts:funfacts:nasa_with_us_military_budget|]]| |
| | |TIL that in "understand", "under" means "to be part of" or "to be surrounded by" as for example when you say "under those circumstances". So, to "understand" something, is to stand in the midst of it. And "explain" literally means to flatten, plain out X. So you can "be part of" or "be surrounded by" X once you "understand".| | |
| | |TIL Jamestown governor John Ratcliffe, the villain in “Pocahontas,” died horrifically in real life. After being tricked, ambushed & captured, women removed his skin with mussel shells and tossed the pieces into a fire as he watched. They skinned his face last, and burned him at the stake.|[[:information:funfacts:funfacts:children_stories:pocahontas|Source]]| |
| | |TIL: Euler's work touched upon so many fields that in an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, many discoveries are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.|[[wp>List_of_things_named_after_Leonhard_Euler|]]| |
| | |TIL the king of Thailand, Rama X, whose birth name was Vajiralongkorn Borommachakkrayadisonsantatiwong Thewetthamrongsuboriban Aphikhunuprakanmahittaladunladet Phumiphonnaretwarangkun Kittisirisombunsawangkhawat Borommakhattiyaratchakuman|[[wp>Vajiralongkorn|Source]]| |
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