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TIL YouTube acknowledges the first rickroll as an important event in its history

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wNgW TIL Freddie Mercury used a piano as a headboard for his bed and taught himself to play the piano backwards so if a song idea popped into his head when lying in bed, he could reach backwards and play it or record it.
NjbP TIL a cat’s collar bone is not connected to any other bone in its body. The forelimbs are attached to the shoulder by free-floating clavicle bones, which allows them to pass their body through any space into which they can fit their heads,
dE0E TIL statues of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow are still on cathedrals all over Germany
Wk058 TIL that "Live Aid", the benefit concert held for the Ethiopian famine in 1985, (while well intended) actually gave ~£150 million to the Ethiopian Dictatorship. They used the money to mostly buy weapons from the Soviet Union and further fueled their civil war.
xY1w Today I learned that before getting her own show, Oprah Winfrey co-hosted a morning talk show where she could only speak when her male costar tapped her on her leg.