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TIL HG Wells and Charles Darwin lived only 7 miles apart

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vP8AK TIL that after attending a Queen concert in LA, Michael Jackson suggested to Freddie Mercury that the band should release "Another One Bites The Dust" as a single. After doing so, the song became a worldwide hit, spending 15 weeks in the Billboard Top 10, and is Queen’s bestselling single to date.
DQaBP TIL Ohio’s state flag is the only non-rectangular flag of all the U.S. states.
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QNlgp TIL that by the late 90s, 80% of digital library catalogs ran on the PICK operating system, named after its developer Dick Pick.
yVBY8 TIL all humans alive on the planet today are related to a single individual who lived as recently as a few thousand years ago, according to the most realistic scientific models to find the "Most Recent Common Ancestor"