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TIL That Don Mclean's American Pie held the record for almost 50 years for being the longest song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 before Taylor Swift's "All Too Well (Taylor's Version)" broke the record in 2021.

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Kmaw TIL Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation in Latin. The Vatican reporter who broke the story was the only one in the room who could actually understand the announcement.
4XaXR TIL Motown founder Berry Gordy's youngest son was one half of electronic duo LMFAO
58j9 TIL Captain Richard Antrim was captured in 1942 & held as a POW. During this time, he impressed with his engineering skills & helped the Japanese arrange trenches. From the air, the trenches spelled out “US”, warning bombers not to attack and that it was a POW camp, saving hundreds of lives.
x6BQo TIL that 35,000 tonnes of the steel in the Burj Khalifa was repurposed from the parliament building of the former state of East Germany.
8e7WK TIL that the 188 tallest mountains on earth are in Asia. The 189th tallest, Aconcagua, is in Argentina.