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TIL that on Freddie Mercury’s final album before his death, he wrote and recorded a love song to Delilah, his cat.

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1a4gO TIL of Valerie Browning - a woman who with her husband Ishmael has been serving the people of Afar, Ethiopia (one of the hottest places on earth) since 1973. She grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She has been providing medicine, food and education to the people living there.
rRp1 TIL that Christian Bale based his character (Patrick Bateman) in American Psycho from seeing Tom Cruise on David Letterman. Stating, “…he just had this very intense friendliness with nothing behind the eyes, and he was really taken with this energy.”
7rgRM TIL about Toby. A cat that walked twelve miles to his former home after his owners gave him to another family. His former family took him to a local animal shelter and asked for Toby to be euthanize. The shelter refused and found Toby a new loving family who cares from him.
Yp7Wr TIL that adding salt on pineapples makes it sweeter. The salt reacts with the acids of the fruit, thus converting into a neutral compound and losing the sour taste. Because of this, the pineapple then becomes sweeter.
grdoW TIL that at the Council of Nicea in 325, a priest called Arius proposed a heretical belief so strong he got punched by St. Nicholas, aka Santa Claus. Several years later, Arius died from rectal prolapse and according to legend, defecating out parts of his organs.