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TIL Freddie Mercury didn’t make it public that he had AIDS until the day before he died.

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69e0Y TIL that nearly everyone mispronounces Chico Marx' first name (one of the famous Marx Brothers) as "Cheek-Oh" when it's actually pronounced "Chick-Oh". He earned the nickname as the brother who was always chasing after the "chicks" (slang for girls).
PylL TIL of “Herman the German”, one of four massive cranes built to lift German U-Boats during WW2. It was given to the US as post-war reparation, and still works today in the Panama Canal, after 70+ years of service.
eonn TIL that Frederick the Great, one of Prussia’s greatest monarchs, who ruled for 46 years, was forced to watch the decapitation of what was likely his gay lover, Hans Hermann von Katte when he was 18.
8a15G TIL in the original Pinocchio story he is executed by hanging. The Fox and the Cat bind his arms, pass a noose around his throat and hang him from the branch of an oak tree.
yVYPe TIL of the play Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play in which survivors in a post apocalyptic world reenact episodes of the Simpsons