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TIL Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” only reached #9 on the US charts when the song was first released in 1976, but reached #2 in 1992 after Wayne’s World came out

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xYbD TIL Scientists discovered in 2015 that Boa Constrictors kill their prey by cutting off their blood supply, not by suffocation like it was originally assumed.
0dbgA TIL Mean Girls was based on self-help book aimed at parents of teenage girls
dQAE TIL Supernatural fans used the hash tag #LuciferIsComing for the 5th season premiere when Lucifer is released, but unaware Twitter users responded with numerous #GodIsHere hash tags, leading both topics to be blocked from Twitter.
ANAZ4 TIL the word for father is "mama" in most of the western Australian Aboriginal languages. The word for mother is also "papa" in a subset of these languages.
Z8l7G TIL how to use old gift cards, credit cards, or hotel room keys to make a mobile phone stand.