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Today I learned about the song "Mexico", by Peruvian composer Francis Lopez.

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X0JjX TIL Nintendo characters Mario, Kirby, and Zelda were all named after real people.
j6OVX TIL the small protusion from our ears, near the canal, is called the Tragus and that it helps us collect and process sounds coming from behind us.
PYyDE TIL that when David Attenborough's series "Blue Planet II" aired in 2017, so many Chinese fans downloaded the programme on the country’s online Tencent Video channel that the internet in China temporarily slowed down
xVKwb TIL during the Civil War a Maine woman was captured at sea by Confederate pirates but escaped by getting them blackout drunk and then convincing their slave crew to "make them prisoners" and sail with her to freedom.
698Jm TIL South korea has 52 million people in a similar area to portugal.