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TIL that Freddie Mercury was Indian of Parsi descent and his real name was Farookh Bulsara

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ndvo TIL of the’ Night Witches’, a Russian all female bomber squadron in WW2. The 80-woman group flew 23,000 sorties and received 23 ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ honors. They earned the name from their technique of shutting the engine off and gliding over their targets to drop bombs silently.
5YeAr TIL the Spanish Flu, which killed 5% of the world’s population, was especially lethal to healthy adults. This happened because their strong immune reactions ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups.
pYx5e TIL that Martha Washington's portrait on the 1896 US one-dollar bill is the most recent time that a woman has been featured on US paper money
EOwX TIL that Beethoven routinely had the same breakfast each morning before he started working on his compositions. It consisted of coffee, which he prepared himself. He determined that there should be sixty beans per cup, and he often counted them out one by one for a precise dose.
VMyJp TIL Billy Joel never sells front row tickets at his concerts