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TIL the high opera note in Bohemian Rhapsody was not sung by Freddie Mercury, but drummer Roger Taylor

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KOLDJ TIL Scottish scientists were awarded £250,000 in funding for a 3 year program to breed sheep who fart less. First they will work out how much methane the sheep produce; then they'll attempt to create more of the animals who fart the least.
WkxEL TIL Astronauts of Apollo 16 and 17 reported Moon dust to be "soft like snow, yet strangely abrasive, with a taste and smell of gunpowder."
AGmn TIL Freddy Rumsen from Mad Men is Bill Murray’s little brother
Zp5oR TIL In 2023, Canada's Quttinirpaaq National Park, located about 800 kilometres south of the North Pole, received new management plan to strengthen Inuit engagement on research, tourism and infrastructure. Between 2008 and 2017, an average of 17 people visited the park annually
6E6W TIL that according to Bart Ehrman, Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, at least 11 of the 27 books in the New Testament are forgeries- many of which were written by “early Christian leaders trying to settle theological feuds.”