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TIL Brian May’s dad helped him build his famous guitar, but was upset when Brian abandoned his PhD program to join Queen. Brian went on to write “We Will Rock You”, “Fat Bottomed Girls"—and eventually "A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud”, the thesis he finished 36 years later.

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