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TIL that after Freddie Mercury died, his parents burned (almost) all his belongings in accordance with his religion, Zoroastrianism. His stamp collection resides at The Postal Museum.

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AKJw TIL that Manhattan Project mathematician Richard Hamming was asked to check some arithmetic by a fellow researcher. Hamming planned to give it to a subordinate until he realized it was a set of calculations to see if the nuclear detonation would ignite the entire Earth’s atmosphere.
Z8ZD TIL Bush’s African Aids program spends 2/3 of the money on abstinence only programs, will only give condoms to “high risk” groups, won’t support clean needles and while saving lives it could have saved millions more.
owk7 TIL on May 19 2011, South Korea passed a bill that doesn’t allow children under 16 to play video games from 10:30 P.M. to 6:00 A.M
D8jV TIL Since the Han Dynasty in 200 BC, the Chinese have drilled for natural gas which was transported in bamboo pipelines to be burned in stoves.
OGQx6 Today I learned that President Glover Cleveland had a secret surgery removing a tumor in his mouth on a yacht because he worried that news of him having cancer would effect the stock market.