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TIL that the true meaning of the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody still remain a secret within the band

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ADN5x TIL Researchers suggest that the discovery of fire influenced human evolution. Fire allowed humans to cook their food, which made food easier to chew and digest—which, in turn, contributed to the reduction of human tooth and gut size.
j9lM TIL that gold miners in Peru are clear-cutting forests, washing down the soil with high pressure hoses and putting mercury on the slurry to mine gold, ruining everything they touch.
RXM4 TIL that the movie Crocodile Dundee’s character was loosely based on a man called Rod Ansell, who was lost in the outback for 56 days, sued Paul Hogan for not profiting from the film, lost his property, started growing weed, got hooked on meth and ended up dying in a drug fuelled police shootout.
PY50w TIL Wolfgang Engels, an East German soldier who had helped build the barbed-wire fences that initially separated the two Berlins, stole a tank and drove it through the wall itself. Despite getting caught in the barbed wire and shot twice, he managed to escape.
4mWb TIL a university professor has created a hybridized tree type yielding 40 different kinds of fruit, including “peaches, plums, peaches, apricots, nectarines, cherries and more”, all using low-tech grafting techniques