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TIL “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen returned to the US top 10 charts after 16 years due to its appearance in the “Wayne’s World” movie

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4X09X TIL of a French territory in South America called French Guiana, who’s got the 17th best GDP mainly due to its primary income being their rocket-launching base in the capital, Kourou.
b960Q TIL that there is a five dollar fee for any staff at the Top Gun School who quotes the movie.
dDDW8 TIL about the Great Attractor which it was previously thought the Milky Way was moving towards at 1,342,162 mph, but now the Great Atractor AND the Milky Way are both moving towards Shapely Supercluster. Observation of these areas is blocked by the Milky Way for the next 100 million years.
Npx6 TIL If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.