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TIL Britney Spears’ music is used by the British Navy to scare off Somali pirates

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Xgdj TIL in 1974, a then-unknown Queen performed at an Australian festival to a mean-spirited, drunken crowd. Before finishing, Freddie Mercury told them that Queen would be “one of the biggest bands in the world” the next time they visited. When they came back, they were at the top of the charts.
Mg08 TIL every fig has a dead wasp in it.
kO8Bg TIL That the 2008 movie "Kung Fu Panda' was so successful that it created a debate on how Western filmmakers were able to make a better film about Chinese culture than the Chinese themselves.
AZAw TIL Adult meerkats teach their young to hunt scorpions safely by first presenting them with dead scorpions and then soon after with live scorpions that the adult had already removed their deadly stingers from