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TIL Mohammad is the most popular boys' name in Berlin, Germany.

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nN8B TIL that Tolkien disliked the Narnia stories, one of the reasons was that the christian meaning was too obvious.
wLVy7 TIL ‘Die Hard’ is based on a novel that, itself, was a sequel to another book. The first story was made into a Frank Sinatra film which meant the producers had to first contractually offer the starring role to Sinatra, who was in his 70’s.
OQdg TIL a Norwegian rockslide (~8000 years ago) is believed to have created a tsunami so powerful, it turned Britain from a European peninsula into an island.
yQKQX TIL that there is a monument to laboratory mice at a university in Siberia. The mouse is wearing a lab coat and knitting a DNA double helix, symbolizing the gradual progress of DNA research.
AZ0o TIL Przewalski’s horse is the only true wild horse left in the world, and that the other horses, such as the American Mustang, are actually feral horses.