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TIL that "Love Kills", Freddie Mercury's first song released as a solo artist, was nominated for Worst Original Song at the 1985 Razzie Awards

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brm7 TIL After murdering a man in a nightclub, Ricky Ray Rector agreed to turn himself in. Instead, he shot the negotiating officer in the back, killing him. He then attempted suicide but failed, effectively lobotomizing himself. He saved part of his last meal for “after the execution”.
XEnB8 TIL MLB planned to fold the Montreal Expos and Minnesota Twins in 2001. When the Twins had to honor the end of its lease at the Metrodome, MLB kept both squads to maintain an even number of teams. Unluckily for the Expos, they had sold most of their prospects, and moved to Washington, D.C. in 2005.
MeJkW TIL that John Wayne's character in the 1956 classic movie The Searchers, repeated use of the phrase "That'll be the day" so impressed Buddy Holly and friends they used it as the title for their now standard rock song That'll be the day.
4X8No TIL The two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, were written about in the book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by author Jonathan Swift – 151 years before they were discovered
1E7r TIL that the alternative history novel “The Man in the High Castle” features a “novel within a novel”. While the actual book is about Nazis winning WWII, the in-book novel is about an alternate universe in which the Nazis lose the war.