Fun Facts and Joke Section

• Did you know that most toilets flush in the key of E flat? 
• Did you know that before there were such things as end pins, cellists had to hold up their instrument between their knees? 
• A tourist in Vienna is going through a graveyard and all of a sudden he hears some music, so he starts searching for the source. He locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a headstone that reads: Ludwig van Beethoven. Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony and it is being played backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed. This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being played backward. Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar. When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the reverse order in which they were composed. By the next day the word has spread and people have gathered around the grave. They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward. Just then, the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the crowd asks him if he has an explanation for the music. "Oh, it's nothing to worry about," says the caretaker. "He's just decomposing!"

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