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TIL that Freddie Mercury abandoned recording demos with Michael Jackson in 1983 because Jackson insisted on keeping his llama with him in the recording studio.

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VMLZk TIL Philadelphia Police bombed a residential neighborhood from a helicopter in May 1985
9YVWM TIL that the tongue map that I learned about in school (and some schools still teach today) is a myth. Your entire tongue can taste all flavors, and your soft palate as well as your throat also have taste buds.
GYA8J TIL that during the Victorian Era, “female hysteria” was a catchall term for many feelings of malaise, including when a woman was horny. Doctors “treated” the ailment by masturbating the women until they reached “hysterical paroxysm”, or as we call it today, an orgasm. [NSFW]
VBp4k TIL Sign language has tongue twisters
MYLA TIL that in from the 1880s to the 1900s, pollution caused by horses was so severe, the presence of the (then unheard of) automobile was regarded as a saviour, as it did not pollute the streets with manure, urine and dead horses.