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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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40VJ TIL that in 2002, a fire at a girls’ school in Mecca, Saudi Arabia killed fifteen girls. It has been strongly suggested that their deaths occured due to the involvement of the “religious police,” who prevented them from leaving the building because the girls were not wearing correct Islamic dress.
L190 TIL. Cameron Diaz advocates urinating outdoors or during a shower because it conserves electricity and water.
9YBbM TIL during WWII one soldier by himself, used an MG to repel a German infantry attack and killed over 100 German soldiers.
Rk18 TIL the Welsh language is spoken in the Chubut Province, Argentina.
b9Kkp TIL of the death of Captain James Cook, the first European to discover Hawaii. When Hawaiian natives stole one of Cook's longboats, he attempted to get it back by kidnapping their chief. This almost succeeded, but after discovering Cook's plot, the angry natives clubbed and stabbed him to death.