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TIL: Egypt has a city called 6th of October

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P14VG 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!
BKxx TIL November 9th holds particular significance in German History; it is the anniversary of Robert Blum’s execution in 1848, the abdication of the Kaiser in 1918, the Munich Putsch of 1923, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Ka6B TIL a Greenland shark was tagged off Greenland in 1936 and recaptured in 1952. Its measurements suggest that Greenland sharks grow at a rate of 0.5–1 cm (0.2–0.4 in) per year, thus the largest individuals may live about 200 years, making them among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth.
x64nk TIL the author of the Dr. Dolittle series, Hugh Lofting, created the book in a series of letters to his children while he was fighting in the First World War as a way to spare them from the horrors he was witnessing being committed on both humans and animals alike
QJdZ9 TIL There is a polar bear jail in Manitoba for "troublesome or dangerous" bears