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TIL that a popular Halloween song, "Thriller," was written by an Englishman named Rod Temperton. He wrote a number of top hits for other recording artists, won a Grammy award and was nominated for an Oscar. His nickname was "The Invisible Man" because he chose to stay out of the limelight.

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gr8ay TIL: An Indian mathematician identified Mt. Everest as the world's highest peak in 1852. Using trigonometry, he calculated its height to be 29,000 ft. In 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nepal determined the actual height to be 29,031 ft - a difference of 31 ft from the 1852 estimate.
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