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TIL that in 1999 Queen's drummer Roger Taylor became just the second living, non-royal to appear on a British stamp when he was pictured in the background of a Freddie Mercury stamp

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nWBmB TIL Richard Dedekind, who worked with Georg Cantor on infinite sets, was an exceptional mathematician but he never went beyond being a high school teacher in his hometown. Cantor wanted to enter University of Berlin but was prevented from doing so as his new branch of mathematics was rejected
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a8dVy TIL of Arses, a genus of birds from New Guinea and Australia named after an ancient Persian king
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