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TIL that in Civilization V, the theme song for Alexander the Great is the oldest surviving complete musical composition, including musical notation, from anywhere in the world

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P1EKL TIL that there are approximately 2,500 kilometers (1,600 mi) of catacombs beneath the city of Odessa.
KjrQ TIL the astronauts aboard Apollo 11 couldn’t afford the life insurance policy for an astronaut, so they hatched an alternate plan. Prior to their mission, the three signed hundreds of autographs while under quarantine for their families to sell if anything were to happen to them.
MG4W TIL a 2012 episode of Peppa Pig was banned from Australia as the central message that spiders were not to be feared was deemed “inappropriate for an Australian audience”
ybep TIL any US citizen can take possession of an uninhabited island anywhere in the world so long as it contains guano deposits and is not within the jurisdiction of another government.
5Y17k TIL OJ Simpson has paid less than 1% of the $33.5 million civil judgment against him for the wrongful death of Ron Goldman