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TIL Freddie Mercury spent his last months recording as many vocals as he could for the rest of Queen to finish after his death

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gMjR9 TIL some people are phobic of certain numbers. In some Asian countries, it is common to omit floors that include the 4 as it is similar to death in Mandarin. While in Italy, 17 may refer "I am dead." In some western cultures, 13 is considered an unlucky number.
ANMex TIL Tony's Chocolate bars are unequally divided by design to represent the inequality in profits within the chocolate industry. The chunks to the bottom left corner of the bar represent Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo+Benin, Nigeria, & Cameroon + the Gulf of Guinea, source of 60% world cocoa supply.
m5No TIL US Medium (M) shirts are larger than Extra Large (XL) Chinese shirts.
Wk4M4 TIL - There exists a Belgian bicycle road in Germany. It's not that they just own the land, no, the road is fully Belgian territory. It used to be a railroad track, which was appointed to Belgium after the first World War.
8eax8 TIL that up until 1857, the United States produced and minted "half-cent" coins, the lowest value coin minted ever in the US.