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TIL that Brian May, the lead guitarist of Queen, plays almost exclusively on a home built guitar called ‘Red Special’ which be built with his father when he was a teenager

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JOvk TIL There are millions of ‘stateless persons’ around the world who aren’t considered a national by any country. It is extremely difficult for them to travel because of their lack of a normal passport.
1LgV TIL forgotten smallpox vials were found in a cardboard box in Maryland in 2014, over 30 years after its eradication
X067Q TIL the moon is always the same size in the sky, it just looks bigger when lower because we compare it to buildings and other features
gMleb TIL in the 1988 box-office bomb "Mac and Me", the wheelchair-bound lead child character was played by a real wheelchair-bound actor with spina bifida. In real life, when people asked why he was in a wheelchair, the 12-year-old would reply, "Vietnam."
J1jn4 TIL that Robert Cronin holds the World Records for longest time to complete an undergraduate program at 52 years and 111 days. He was a cardiologist who served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University from 1972 to 1977 and finished his undergraduate degree in 2000.