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TIL that Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody has now hit the billboard hot 100 in three separate decades.

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mxAjR TIL When King Ludwig I of Bavaria met Lola Montez, an irish actress/dancer, the first thing he asked her was "are your breasts real?" She became his mistress and power behind the throne, her influence on him been part of the reason why Ludwig was eventually forced to abdicate
7RX7 TIL In 1901, Teddy Roosevelt presented his “Controlling the Trusts” speech to Congress shortly after taking the reins as President. In the speech, he asked Congress to curb the corporation’s power to “within reasonable limits”.
Lkv6V TIL Ron Howard only accepted a role in the pilot of the show of Happy Days to avoid the Vietnam War draft. According to Howard, he had a horrible draft number (41 or 42), and, because the government wasn't accepting college deferment anymore he needed a work deferment.
p8dAe TIL that domestic hamsters hibernate In winter and people often mistake them as being dead.
69Yd7 TIL that in 1922, a conductorless orchestra modelled on Marxist ideas formed in the Soviet Union. A committee decided tempos and playing styles. However, they found tempo changes difficult due to not having a leader to guide them, and were disbanded 10 years later by Stalin.