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TIL, Freddie Mercury used to call his maids while touring and insist on talking to his cats

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oB5aK TIL that after the Disney/Pixar animated film “Ratatouille” was released, demand for rats as pets surged by as much as 50%
jN6dp "If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii. It would take a moon-size object to move the moon, says Clark Chapman, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, and most likely the moon wouldn't survive. Hitting it with a much larger, denser object would be like whacking an egg with a golf club.
ldg5 TIL that for Christmas, Catalan children “feed” a hollowed-out log with a painted face, then later sing a song and beat the log with a stick until it defecates presents. The first line of the song is “Shit, log!”
wooWY TIL The hood ornament on a Rolls Royce, officially called The Spirit of Ecstasy, was based on Eleanor Thornton, a British model and actress, and mistress of Baron Montagu of Beaulieu (and bore him a child), who died on the SS Persia which was sunk in the Mediterranean by a U-Boat during WW I.
neYQP TIL that a self proclaimed "Grammar Vigilante" has been correcting grammatically incorrect store signs in Bristol at night since 2003. He uses an 8 foot long apparatus called the "Apostrophiser" to correct signs such as "Amy's Nail's" and "Cambridge Motor's"