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TIL that Freddie Mercury considered Led Zeppelin to be the greatest rock group ever

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axvL TIL that Betty Boop was actually based off of an African American singer whose singing trademark was “Boop oop da doop”. The resemblance between the two of them is uncanny.
4VEw TIL in 1933, a Japanese School Girl committed suicide by jumping into a volcanic crater on the island of Oshima. This act started a bizarre trend in Japan, and in the following year 944 other people (804 men and 140 women) leapt into the same crater.
4XVBa TIL that the gym chain Planet Fitness, which charges between $10 and $20 per month, has, on average, 6,500 members per gym. Most of its gyms can hold around 300 people. Planet Fitness can do this because it knows that members won't show up.
GA6N4 TIL Texas Guinan was a stage and early film star, who became a famous figure during Prohibition. She publicly wagered $100,000 against the USAG to find anyone who could claim she had sold them a drink, or had seen her drink, despite running multiple speakeasies
v1nLL TIL the Bubonic Plague is still around. It affects about 7 people a year in the US, and small rodents like prairie dogs are fed vaccine treats to help their populations and reduce spread.