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TIL that violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini lost his fortune on a failed Paris casino, auctioning his instruments to recoup losses. When he died in 1840, rumours of a pact with the devil led the Church to deny him a Catholic burial; his body was finally interred in 1876.

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TIL that violin virtuoso Niccolò Paganini lost his fortune on a failed Paris casino, auctioning his instruments to recoup losses. When he died in 1840, rumours of a pact with the devil led the Church to deny him a Catholic burial; his body was finally interred in 1876.

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