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TIL Freddie Mercury was a passionate stamp collector. He amassed an impressive collection from countries all around the world, which is now preserved by the British Postal Museum.

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nWx19 TIL after the OJ verdict, 75% white Americans and 30% black Americans polled thought he was guilty, but by 2016 those numbers had changed to 83% and 57%, respectively.
b9mOp TIL that the first recorded use of Forensic Entomology was by Chinese detective in 1200s AD. In a murder investigation in a village, detective Song Ci put every scythe in the village for inspection and found the culprit when flies- attracted to trace amounts of blood- kept landing on his scythe.
0ddAv TIL your routine can determine when you feel hungry. You may not really need food.
16w4O TIL Nuclear Winter as the result of worldwide nuclear war has largely been discredited by current science. It was mainly a political position to prop nuclear disarmament, based on faulty modelling and "worst-case analysis run amok".
woXXY TIL Apollo 7 was the first well-documented instance of someone coming down with a cold in space.