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TIL In 1990, Freddie Mercury recorded the song The Show Must Go On in a single take and while dying of AIDS

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l77La TIL nearly 4 million chickens, 726,000 pigs, and 29,000 cattle die in transport every year – just in the U.S.
4abg TIL when Alan Moore was preparing to write ‘The Killing Joke’, he asked DC Comics editor Len Wein if they had any problem with crippling Barbara Gordon (Batgirl). Wein replied, 'Yeah, okay, cripple the bitch.’ “It was probably one of the areas where they should’ve reined me in, but they didn’t.”
bZM9 TIL Tom and Jerry committed suicide
dDe49 TIL that the leading pioneer of Japanese rocket science, Hideo Itokawa, was nicknamed "Dr. Rocket"
oRloA TIL about a black Alaskan wolf named Romeo who loved to play with dogs, was friendly with humans, got killed by poachers who got a slap on the wrist thanks to Alaska’s lax laws on killing wolves, and is on display at a permanent exhibit at the Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center in Juneau