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TIL that Freddie Mercury designed the Queen “crest”.

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dweB TIL George Clooney once cleaned his roommate’s cat’s litter box for four days, then shit in it himself, causing the roommate to think it was from his constipated cat.
BroXx TIL At one point in August 1971, the Pittsburgh Pirates became the first professional team to field nine players who were either black or Latino. Coincidentally, this was the same year they won the World Series.
E7rd TIL CNN’s founder Ted Turner, at the launch of the channel in 1980, promised: “We won’t be signing off until the world ends. … We’ll be … covering it live. … [And] when the end of the world comes, we’ll play ‘Nearer My God to Thee’ before we sign off.”
9PVr TIL Will Smith turned down playing Neo(The Matrix) to make the wild wild west.
BgQRk TIL that veins only appear blue because if the way wavelengths of light hit the skin