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TIL Kandahar, Afghanistan may have derived its name from Alexander the Great, who founded the city around 330 BC.

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dDKEj TIL the nursery school drawing by John Lennon's 4 year old son Julian that inspired the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" still exists and is owned by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.
VM1BB TIL the USSR had a televised song contest. Since few people had phones, viewers would turn their house lights on if they liked a certain song, off if they didn’t. The state energy company recorded the size of each power spike & reported results to the station to determine votes for each contestant.
VBWl0 TIL in the 1870s William Shanks spent 15 years of his life calculating pi to 707 places by hand. However, the last few years were wasted as he made a mistake after the 527th digit.
8a1Qa TIL that the official authority for lighthouses in England is formally named "The Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent".
691pZ TIL Ball's Pyramid is the tallest volcanic stack in the world, home to last known wild population of the Lord Howe Island stick insect