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TIL Mike Myers gave a sick Freddie Mercury the tape of the Bohemian Rhapsody scene from Wayne’s World. Freddie loved it.

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58X8 TIL Continental Flight 1713 crashed just after take-off killing 28 people, due to perhaps the most incompetent pilot to ever be hired by a major airline. He had only 36 total hours of experience flying jets. Failed 3 previous flight exams, forgot procedure, had panic attacks, and crashed simulators.
KA9w TIL that Roger Ebert wrote three movies, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Up! and Beyond the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens. All skin flicks,
69Nym TIL Funeral homes put spiked contact lenses in to keep your eyes closed after death.
vlrB TIL that Mattel sold a vibrating Harry Potter broomstick that teenage girls really, really liked.
l7YJG TIL JFK's sister, Rosemary, was subjected to a prefrontal lobotomy when she was 23 years of age by request of her father. It left her incapacitated and unable to speak intelligibly. The Kennedy family did not explain her absence until 1961, where they said it was on account of "mental retardation".