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TIL Radio Gaga song by Queen was inspired by a swearing toddler, son of Roger taylor, the drummer of the band

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5Yx18 TIL Jackie Kennedy's pink suit worn when her husband, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated is locked away in the National Archives until at least 2103.
mpMp TIL that “Horseback riding carries a higher injury rate than motorcycle riding.”
KOyX4 TIL of Christian Adamek, a 15 year old High School Student that faced criminal charges and possible registration as a Sex Offender after streaking during a High School Football Game, 2 days after the stunt he took his own life.
oR71E TIL the game Oregon Trail was developed by 3 college students trying to teach history creatively. The first version was coded in just 10 days in 1971 and played by middle schoolers for 5 days. The code was given to an educational nonprofit in 1974, and the creators never profited from the game.
rNO9o TIL: To "protect the truth," a woman recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of TV news between 1977 and 2012. Her archives grew to about 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes stacked in her home and apartments she rented to store them. Upon her death, the Internet Archive agreed to digitize the volumes.