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TIL that Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury made a song together

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7bLM TIL that Donkey Kong was so named because his creator believed ‘donkey’ meant 'stupid’ in English and wanted to convey the impression that the character was a “Stupid Ape”
OG9oR TIL Galileo tracked sunspot movements and discovered that the Sun rotates. It is now known that sunspots close to the equator rotate once each 25 days and sunspots near the poles rotate each 38 days
YpYN7 TIL That in the middle ages in Europe, using a fork instead of hands while eating was seen as unchristian and insulting to god.
oRBrA TIL that while Queen Elizabeth II is titular head of the Commonwealth, and her designated successor is her son Charles, Prince of Wales, the title is not strictly speaking a hereditary one.
wjw8 TIL: As a result of China’s “one child” policy and sex-selection abortions, China has 30+ million surplus single men between age 25-40. That’s more than the combined population of adults in New York and Texas who will never find a mate.