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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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N7dAQ TIL Toronto has an underground arcology, a network of underground tunnels where it possible to live without needing to venture outside
nep0r TIL a man called Roger Sperry performed brain experiments on cats and monkeys. He found that if the two brain hemispheres were not connected they would function independently of one another, and even enable the split-brain of the animals to memorize double the information.
0VVR TIL the Aztecs made swords embedded with prismatic obsidian blades that are far sharper than even high quality present day steel razor blades.
X0n5D TIL malaria investments have averted nearly 12 million deaths and more than 2 billion cases of the disease (2000-2023). There was 608,000 deaths due to malaria in 2022
yVOM TIL Hunter S. Thompson terrorized Jack Nicholson on his birthday by playing the sound of a pig being eaten alive by bears and shooting at his house.