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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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d8697 TIL that Peter Dinklage used to be in a punk band called Whizzy in the early 1990’s.
l7M1a TIL The earliest known examples of the merit system for selecting bureaucrats based on their ability (rather than their political connections or high birth) date back to the Qin and Han dynasties of China, between the 3rd Century BCE and 2nd Century CE.
l7Z1A TIL Mihailo Tolotos was a Greek Orthodox monk that died without ever seeing a woman. He lived all his 82 years of life in Mount Athos monastery
l75PV TIL: The Manhattan Project considered poisoning Germany's food supply with radioactive strontium-90
jA4Q TIL Dr Seuss was the first person to coin the word ‘Nerd’ in his 1950 book If I Ran the Zoo.