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TIL Freddie Mercury of Queen intended to record multiple duets with Michael Jackson, but after recording one song he dropped out of any further collaborations because he felt uncomfortable working with Jackson’s pet llama in the studio

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v144L TIL about Abram Petrovich Gannibal, an African child kidnapped to Russia as a gift for Peter the Great. The tsar freed him and raised him as his godson. Gannibal became a Major-General and the Governor of Reval. He is the great-grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, considered the greatest Russian poet.
xJWo TIL In Scrubs, Ted’s (played by Sam Lloyd) band ‘The Worthless Peons’ is Sam Lloyd’s actual a capella band 'The Blanks’ which he formed in college.
Z55G TIL in 1989 the EPA attempted to ban the use of asbestos in building materials. This ban was overturned after asbestos industry supporters sued the EPA and won. The U.S. remains one of the few developed countries to allow any industrial use of asbestos.
woop8 TIL about Khuk Khi Kai, a jail in Thailand which was designed so that prisoners were subjected to a regular shower of chicken poop
0w1Dp TIL that Berea College is a 4 year college in Kentucky. It provides free education to all students admitted and was the first southern college to be coeducational and racially integrated