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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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5gvn TIL that Eugenics was widely practiced in the United States, years before Nazi Germany, including forced sterilization, feeding of TB infected milk, and the consideration of gas chambers
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