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TIL the murder rate in the capital of Venezuela is so high that each year 0.1% of the population is murdered

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E1MNP TIL that Taylor Swift composed her song "Enchanted" after a meeting with Adam Young (Owl City) which, in return, presented a cover dedicated to her of the same song on Valentine's Day. Despite the interviews they gave at the time and the romantic text of the songs, the two never officially dated.
9WXM TIL - Aluminum foil starts out as an 8 ton block that’s rolled down gradually until it yields 8 miles of foil
nWyM9 TIL Leonhard Euler wrote some papers on music theory. However, these papers were considered “too mathematical for musicians and too musical for mathematicians.”
kMPm TIL Rupert Murdoch, acting CEO of Fox News, was “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company” after an investigation that his companies regularly hacked the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens.
YlGr TIL of Snorri Thorfinnsson, the first North American child to be born of European parents (Thorfin Karlsefni and Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir), was born in Vinland around A.D. 1000. He would go on to be an important figure in the Christianisation of Iceland