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TIL people in Toronto once passive aggressively protested by making a memorial for a dead raccoon after it lay on the street for 12 hours

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eM4n TIL in May 1991, Freddie Mercury started recording vocals for “Mother Love”, but upon reaching the last verse, he told his band that he had to “have a rest” and that he would return to finish it. He didn’t end up making it to the studio, eventually succumbing to AIDS. Brian May sang the final verse.
e0Go6 TIL that the creators of "Babar the Elephant" had a son who was a rising classical piano star, but gave it all up in 1970s to become a silent Benedictine monk. He is still alive today, residing in a monastery in En-Calcat, France.
VMkQk TIL In 2001 a man slipped on ice and drowned in his cat's water bowl
PYKlO TIL Johnny Carson Craved Time Alone So Much His $80 Million Home Had Only 1 Bedroom.
XLmk TIL when Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Atlanta threw him a dinner party that was almost cancelled due to opposition. Coca-Cola’s CEO threatened to move the company out of Atlanta since he thought it was embarrassing that the city’s people wouldn’t honor their Nobel Prize winner.