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TIL John Deacon of the band "Queen" was originally credited as "Deacon John" on their first album in order to make him sound more interesting

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kO0LE TIL while the world’s 370 million indigenous peoples make up less than five percent of the total human population, they manage or hold tenure over 25 percent of the world’s land surface and support about 80 percent of the global biodiversity
4X0jo TIL that every then-living ex-President of the United States - Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan - was offered a guest role in The Simpsons episode Krusty Gets Kancelled. Only Ronald Reagan responded to the offer, politely declining.
4k4P6 TIL of the Battle of Caribou, in which neither the US nor Canada lost any troops due to combat - but a couple of armed Canadian lumberjacks were injured by bears.
0wP8L TIL that one of the things the Mafia can trace it's origins to is the citrus trade in the mid 1800's. The extortion, intimidation, and protection rackets that characterize Mafia activity were first practiced and perfected in the citrus gardens of Palermo, Italy.
N79A1 TIL emergency contraceptives work by preventing ovulation so if your ovaries already released an egg they do nothing