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TIL that Sacha Baron Cohen, previously best known for his comedic characters Borat, Ali G and Brüno, has been chosen to play Freddie Mercury in a film about his life

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wvm1 TIL that from the late 18th to mid-19th century, it was considered bad for women to read novels based on the belief that women were not “able to differentiate between fiction and life.”
ar0N TIL that JFK’s sister was given one of the first lobotomies because of her mood swings. Doctors asked her to sing God Bless America while they cut into her brain, and stopped when she “became incoherent”
aw18Z TIL that the name for Director Brian Singer's production company Bad Hat Harry Productions (X-Men, The Usual Suspects, House, M.D.), and the quote that accompanies the "Vanity Card" shown at the end of a TV Show they produced, are taken from Jaws.
Em0V TIL That Seth MacFarlane, John Lithgow, Richard Gere, Sarah Palin, Howard Dean, Elizabeth Shue, and Bing Crosby are all descendants of the same Mayflower passenger, William Brewster.
R7Oyj TIL that a United States' bombing campaign on North Korea from 1950 to 1953 destroyed approximately 85% of its buildings and killed 15-20% if the entire population