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TIL Halloween came from an Irish pagan festival -- and people used to carve faces in turnips, not pumpkins

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69pdQ TIL in 1973 and 1987, two juvenile Bald Eagles were found having flown to Ireland.
Z8ZxG TIL there was a walled city in Hong Kong that had no laws and the population was 119 times as dense as NYC.
rRrE1 TIL that when Upton Sinclair published his landmark 1906 work "The Jungle” about the lives of meatpacking factory workers, he hoped it would lead to worker protection reforms. Instead, it lead to sanitation reforms, as middle class readers were horrified their meat came from somewhere so unsanitary.
awgLM TIL that for the film "Deliverance", Warner Bros. took the song "Feudin' Banjos" and renamed it "Dueling Banjos", to avoid giving the original composer credit. He sued and received "substantial royalties".
p86yp TIL that most doctors don't swear a hippocratic oath and if they do it doesn't say anything about profiting from unnecessary treatment or taking care of all patients regardless of ability to pay or suspicion of criminality.