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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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BXWk TIL remains found in a peat bog in Florida in 1982 are over 8000 years old - predating the Pyramids by 3500 years.
poQe TIL that the funny way people talked in films between the 1920’s - 1950’s is actually called the “Mid-Atlantic accent” and was essentially invented to distinguish elites
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rd0W TIL That it in Idaho it is legal for cyclists to treat a stop sign as a yield sign, and a red light as a stop sign. This law commonly referred to as the “Idaho Stop”, and has not been adopted in any other state.