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

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oBEMo TIL that in 408BC an actor named Hegelochus mispronounced a word and, instead of saying "after the storm I see again a calm sea," accidentally said "after the storm I see again a weasel." This mistake was so mocked by other Ancient Greeks that over two millennia later we still know his name.
9YL16 TIL in the wake of the creepy clown trend, a 2016 "Clown Lives Matter" peace walk was scheduled in Tucson to demonstrate that "clowns are not psycho killers"; but the event had to be cancelled due to multiple death threats to the clowns.
awNMM TIL the French philosopher Michel Foucault was paid for his famous debate with Noam Chomsky in hashish
N9RJ TIL the US Navy exploded several 500 ton shots of TNT in Hawaii during 1965 to determine the damage caused by nuclear weapons without radiation risks. The craters left behind are inland but connected to the Pacific ocean underground.
7wrb TIL There is a cafe that serves over 100 kinds of cereal in the UK called a Cereal Killer Cafe