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TIL Kenny G's 1989 recording "Going Home", is China's unofficial national closing song for businesses such as food courts, outdoor markets, health clubs, shopping mall, and train stations.

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Gm01 TIL that Paris Metro trains drive on the right rather than the left and its tunnels are narrower than main-line ones in order to prevent it from being absorbed into the national railway network
ReOj TIL Gary Oldman and Matthew McConaughey stared in a 2003 movie called “Tiptoes” in which McConaughey’s entire family are dwarves. And Gary Oldman in “a role of a lifetime” plays McConaughey’s twin brother, also a dwarf.
X07A8 TIL Prehistory refers to the period of human history before writing systems were adopted, so the end of prehistory is different in different places. Prehistory in Australia ended in 1788.
gMGaW Today I learned upside-down rainbows exist; they are named circumzenithal arcs and are considered halos. Arcs are caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals, generally in cirrus or cirrosts clouds, rather than from raindrops like regular rainbows.
PYZrJ TIL Britain bought the freedom of all the slaves under its Empire at a cost of 40% of the treasury income which wasn't paid back till 2015 to ensure the freedom of slaves. 5% of GDP at the time which is aorund 100 Billion pounds today)