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TIL: Freddie Mercury was Indian and took much pride in this, though it is generally over shadowed by him being an iconic British Rockstar

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BBVK TIL someone was once arrested, convicted and fined for typing “../../../”
WKEA TIL a woman sued the distributors of the Movie “drive”(2011) and the theater in which she watched the movie,claiming that “it had very little driving”
OGPQ6 TIL that when crossword puzzles were first introduced to the US, they became an object of cultural hysteria. Newspapers warned of a crossword craze gripping the country's minds. The trend was described as an epidemic, a virulent plague, and a national menace.
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