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TIL the small diamond pattern etched into flashlights, tool handles, barbells, etc. is called “knurling”

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XEgNr Today I Learned that Freddie Mercury created songs 'till the day of his death though he knew that he will die. This is a song that he sang even not a week before his death.
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