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TIL that Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury made a song together

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1aVJD TIL International Women's Day was founded by the Socialist Party of America and later became a national holiday in Soviet Russia. It was predominantly a Communist holiday until adopted by the UN in 1975.
a5ao TIL that the US helped France improve its nuclear weapons. Since US law prevents sharing atomic-bomb information, France and the US used a method called “negative guidance” or “Twenty Questions”; French scientists described to Americans their research, and were told whether they were correct.
e5mb TIL: The only freshwater seal lives in the worlds largest freshwater lake in Baikal, Russia. “ It remains a scientific mystery how the seals originally came to Lake Baikal, hundreds of kilometers from any ocean.”
gMbjA TIL about the ancient art of Japanese woodworking joinery, none of which uses any nails.
KYw09 TIL that the last 17 Treasurers of the United States have been women.