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TIL Franklin D. Roosevelt once accidentally ran into a naked Winston Churchill. When Roosevelt apologised Churchill said "The Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States."

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0w9dv TIL the high opera note in Bohemian Rhapsody was not sung by Freddie Mercury, but drummer Roger Taylor
8aZnL TIL about Judah Friedlander, of the sitcom 30 Rock. His ever-changing, slogan-bearing trucker hats became a gag on the show. Friedlander makes his hats himself and created enough of them to be able to wear a different one in each scene of 30 Rock, which was about three hats per show for 6 seasons.
8epP8 TIL President Calvin Coolidge had a pet raccoon named Rebecca. He got it as a gift in place of a turkey for Thanksgiving and Coolidge had no interest in eating it so he kept Rebecca as a pet and had a “White House Raccoon” tag made for her.
Eb5p TIL Herbert C. Brown’s “wife, bought him the book ‘The Hydrides of Boron and Silicon’ by Alfred Stock as a graduation gift. The book was chosen…because - at $2 - it was the cheapest in the University of Chicago bookstore.” In 1979, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work with Boron.
yVkZM TIL the ‘70s fascination with truckers as anti-government modern cowboys started when an advertising executive invented C.W. McCall, a folksy trucker character, for a bread ad. He recorded country music using McCall as a stage name, and his #1 hit, “Convoy,” spawned a movie by the same name.