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TIL Freddie Mercury’s larger mouth was due to 4 extra teeth on his upper jaw.

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84YX TIL in the 1971 film “Wake In Fright”, a visitor is trapped in an Outback town awash with booze and depression. At a special screening a Australian audience member stood up and yelled “That’s not us!” to which a cast member yelled back “Sit down, mate. It is us.” The once-lost movie is on YouTube.
a8gby TIL that in the 1890s, the U.S. government created the Alaska Reindeer Service, in an attempt to persuade Alaskan natives to become reindeer herders. Reindeer were imported from Siberia, and Sami herders were brought from Norway to teach the Alaskan natives.
a8BX0 TIL Hard Rock Cafe, which operates venues in 74 countries, is owned by the Seminole Tribe of Florida who bought it for $965M in '06. They then paid the state of FL $100M for the rights to allow Vegas-style table gambling in the Cafes.
bPLa TIL There is a German beer with the registered trademark “Fucking Hell”, where Fucking refers to a Village in Austria and Hell is a german sort of Lager.
lG4a TIL “outlaw” originally meant “outside the protection of the law” so you could rob or kill them without legal consequences.