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TIL the “New York, New York” song sung by Frank Sinatra was actually a cover song! The original was released by Liza Minnelli in 1977

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b97BZ TIL that in 2007, German police identified the DNA of a woman at six murders. Fearing this unknown killer, they offered a 300,000 euro reward for her capture. In 2009, she was identified. She worked at the factory that manufactured the DNA swabs.
y1lp TIL: Mr. Brightside by the Killers has been in the UK Single top 100 for 184 weeks since ‘04 (91st currently)
W71ZY TIL as recently as the 1960s, information about bagels was not necessarily common knowledge. In 1960, The New York Times famously identified bagels for still-clueless readers as “an unsweetened doughnut with rigor mortis.”
mWP TIL Heath Ledger was an accomplished chess player and won Western Australia’s junior chess championship, aged 10
OG7be TIL that up until 2015, Dahala Khagrabari was the world’s only 3rd-order enclave. It was a piece of land belonging to India inside a piece of Bangladesh, inside a piece of India, inside Bangladesh