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TIL after a British bicycle rental learned that the band Queen used their bikes for a music video that involved the bicycles being ridden by naked women, the band had to buy the bicycle seats.

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KXrw TIL that there are actually five Dwarf Planets in our Solar System.
9wkap TIL about Bicameral Mentality, a hypothesis which argues that the human mind once operated in a state in which cognitive functions were divided between one part of the brain which appears to be “speaking”, and a second part which listens and obeys.
69VJY TIL: Photojournalist Richard Drew, who captured “The Falling Man” on 9/11, was also only one of four press photographers present at the assassination of JFK.
Movm TIL a man pain under $3 at a thrift store for a “fake” copy of the Delcaration of Independence, turns out to be an original. 36th original copy found out of 200, and sold for half a million dollars.
MrN7 TIL that the Illuminati was originally formed to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.