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TIL that the largest urban area by population outside of Asia is São Paulo, Brazil

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b9gMZ TIL that the founder of Marvel Comics very nearly died in the infamous "Hindenburg" disaster. While on their honeymoon in Europe, he and his wife bought tickets for the zeppelin's ill-fated trip to New York, but they decided to book a plane flight because they couldn't get two seats together.
gr90D TIL Prince shares several songwriting credits with his father
OGQ04 TIL the TV show "Cops" was greenlit because of the 1988 writer's strike when the network had to find entertainment that didn't need union writers.
788Ox TIL that an FBI informant secretly wore a wire to breakfast with a city official suspected of bribery, and met the suspect at the WTC Marriott. In the middle of getting a confession, the informant ends up making what is believed to be the only uninterrupted audio recording of the Sept. 11 attack.
KO8xQ TIL in 1925, archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovered the world's first museum in the palace of Princess Ennigaldi. It was created in 530 BCE with the newest artifact dating nearly 700 years older than the pavement it rested upon, and most of the items were carefully stored and labelled.