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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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X0gZj TIL that Jean Baptiste Lully, a famous composer, died from gangrene after striking his own foot with a conducting staff
4YDN TIL of the vestal virgins. A group of six women recruited at age six to tend the flame of the goddess vesta. Expected to serve for 30 yrs, if their viginity ever came into question they would be buried alive as punishment.
VMrG4 TIL in Kyrgyzstan they play sport called Kok-Boru. It's like Polo but as a ball they use dead goat(used to use dead wolf)
jmvp TIL Japanese police will get huge futons and roll up a person who is being violent or drunk into a little burrito and carry them back to the station to calm them down
5VODQ TIL that the UK government began to buy and nationalise over 300 pubs in 1916 because they felt the nation's workers' excessive drinking was having a detrimental effect on the war effort