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TIL: Unknown song, unofficially called "Egyptian Wife", does anyone know the official title and author?

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nZdd TIL that attempts were made to create a Human-Chimpanzee hybrid through artificial insemination of female chimpanzees in 1960s China. The experiment reportedly achieved pregnancy but was cut short by the Cultural Revolution.
nenbG TIL that Shark Tank pitches usually last an hour, and the longest ever was 2 1/2 hours long. These are edited down to just 10 minutes for TV viewers
R7eRj TIL that there exists an asteroid 2010 TK7 (diameter- 300 mt approx) which has the same orbit around sun as earth and period close to earth's period of 365.256 days. It oscillates a lot about its mean position and on its closest approach to earth it was around 50 times farther than the moon is.
VMJnB TIL that the M&M’s candies are named as such to represent ‘Mars’ and ‘Murrie’, the last names of the candy’s founders.
vwv4 TIL in 2007 a car burglar in Florida was running from the cops after being spotted doing his crime. In the escape he jumped into a retention pond to evade the cops. However, he was then eaten by a 9 foot crocodile.