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TIL Despite the video showing all band members singing, the five-part harmony at the start of Queen's Bohemian Rapsody was all performed by Freddie Mercury

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OoDvX TIL Peter Gabriel's first four solo albums were all called "Peter Gabriel", and used the same typeface and name positioning. The idea was to make them like issues of a magazine.
aJ8y TIL that the CEO of Netflix once said that Blockbuster was throwing everything at them, but the kitchen sink. The next day he received a kitchen sink from the CEO of Blockbuster.
Ldld TIL that while it is quicker to have one line feeding into multiple cashiers at a store, it bothers most customers psychologically as they prefer to jockey for position, leading most stores to choose a more inefficient system to please customers. It is also why other lines move faster in your line.
4MO5 TIL - Europeans didn’t know Marco Polo’s “Cathay” was really China or that the city “Cambulac” was really Beijing, until 1598 when Jesuit priests in Beijing talked to Arab merchants there, who still called it Cambulac. Maps until the 17th century showed China and Cathay as 2 different empires.
aDeM TIL that “Finnegans Wake”, is widely considered to be one of the most difficult works of fiction to read. Readers and commentators have yet to come to an agreement on who the characters are or what the plot is.