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TIL that my favorite Halloween song, "Thriller," was written by an Englishman named Rod Temperton. The list of popular songs that he wrote blew me away. I really enjoyed listening to all of those songs on the radio when I was growing up and I'd never heard his name. "The Invisible Man" indeed!

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R7Rv8 TIL two y/o Karlee Kosolofski was found dead, frozen to her porch in 1994. She had followed her dad out of the house on a -22°C morning and couldn't reach the handle to get back in. Over five hours later, she was found and amazingly revived with only the lower part of her leg needing amputation.
oRrg8 TIL under the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 a man was fined $100 for wishing the canon firing a salute would “hit [President John] Adams in the ass.”
j6A8j TIL of Thomas “Shang” Draper, a crime lord in late 1800s NYC who ran a prostitution house with removable panels on the walls, making it easy for him and his associates to rob clients.
nYpB TIL Mozart sold more CD’s than Kanye, Beyonce and Drake in 2016.
XEGjr TIL that a cat's terminal velocity is reliably non-lethal. This means they can be dropped from almost any height and have a great chance of survival.