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TIL That George Michael donated the song "Jesus to a child" royalties to the charity ChildLine [a child counselling charity] in secret

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rRDnd TIL of the Goldwater Rule, which keeps psychiatrists from commenting on public figures.
BgxED TIL Sugar Ray (Fly, Every Morning, When It’s Over, etc) had a metal album before getting big in the 90s.
9Y6jQ TIL Sacha Cohen, best known for his role as Borat, was initially going to play Freddy Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody. He was dropped due to Cohen wanting to explore the raunchier side of the band, whereas the band members wanted to protect their legacy.
PKbJ TIL during the voice recording for 1986’s “Transformers: The Movie” Orson Welles complained to his biographer that he had spent the day “playing a toy in a movie about toys who do horrible things to each other.”
p7bZ TIL that Singapore (with a fertility rate of 0.79) held a “National Night” in 2012 designed to encourage couples to “create a population spurt” by “letting their patriotism explode!”