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TIL Freddie Mercury did a song with opera singer Montserrat Caballe called "Barcelona" for the 1992 Summer Olympics

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8aMMb TIL that the author of the original Bambi story wrote a fictional pornographic autobiography of a child prostitute in Vienna that was so period accurate that literature scholars debated for decades as to whether it was a true story for decades.
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M1Dm TIL that the International Space Station travels at 17,100 mph. In other words, in the time it takes to play The Proclaimers’ “I’m Gonna Be”, the ISS travels exactly 1000 miles, the distance described in the song.
Wk8EL TIL over 90% of Chinese, and the vast majority of the Eastern world are lactose intolerant. The West aren't due to a genetic mutation that happened 12000 years ago.
nD69 TIL that the identical triplets Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm have tiny black dots tattooed onto their bottocks, which their parents used to distinguish them when they were babies.