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TIL That Freddie Mercury was born in Africa to Indian parents.

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VMkQQ TIL Thomas Jefferson purchased a thermometer a few days before signing The Declaration of Independence. He noted that it was 76 degrees on Signing Day in Philadelphia.
Yp6Br TIL about Pierre Brassau, a painter, who sold one painting for 742$ at his very first exhibition in 1964, when he was only four years old.
wBZW TIL Sigmund Freud wrote in a love letter: “Woe to you, my Princess, when I come… you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.”
698xm TIL acacia trees are flat-topped so that their lowest leaves are at the height of the tallest herbivores. They're also covered in thorns, have organs for housing/feeding vicious ants, release inedible compounds into their leaves when eaten, and use ethylene gas to warn nearby trees of danger
8ewkV TIL The National Film Board of Canada, an agency of the Government of Canada, has received 74 Oscar nominations. More than any film organization in the world outside of Hollywood (it has won 12).