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TIL that Freddie Mercury stopped working with Michael Jackson on the album "Mr Bad Guy" after he became uncomfortable with Jacksons Pet llama being in the studio

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d0xK TIL Frank Hayes was a jockey who, in 1923, suffered a fatal heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park in New York. His horse finished and won the race with his lifeless body still atop, making him the first, and thus far, only, jockey to win a race after death
R79QQ TIL: The Clarendon Library in Oxford has a clock that has been powered by the same batteries since 1840. To date its bells have rung over 10 Billion times.
WkvdN TIL of Nyotaimori, the Japanese practice of eating sushi off naked women
1Z5W TIL In 1967, A 26 year old Australian Nurse used borrowed money to buy a plane which she flew into the Outback to eradicate Polio. She died at age 35 of cancer, and is remembered as one of the Great Women Pilots of the 20th Century
0d9Bv TIL that the Greenlandic Inuit worked iron both from meteorites and lava flows that formed native iron metal.