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TIL Philadelphia cream cheese was created in New York

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7r5ep TIL Freddie Mercury spent most of his childhood in India where he began taking piano lessons at the age of seven while living with relatives. Mercury was sent to study at St. Peter's School near Bombay. It was here when he started calling himself "Freddie".
v1ooK TIL A temple housing a 500-ton statue of the Buddha was commissioned by Emperor Shomu in response to an epidemic which wiped out one third of the Japanese population. Casting the statue almost bankrupted the country.
Wk9eo TIL that the jesus nut, in some helicopter designs, is the single nut that holds the helicopters rotors to the body of the air craft. The term came around in the Vietnam War, one of the first conflicts to make use of helicopters.
9wNAQ TIL about the mummy of Amum-Her-Khepesh-Ef, which was cremated by the curator George Mead in his neighbor's furnace in 1950.
BgKje TIL the photons harnessed for solar energy are the same ones responsible for skin cancer.