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TIL when Freddie Mercury recorded the album Mr. Bad Guy he planned on collaborating with Michael Jackson but cancelled after one song because he felt uncomfortable recording with Jackson’s pet llama in the studio.

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VX0k TIL that besides the USA only 1 other nation has ever built a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, France.
lop67 TIL of the Laconia Incident, in which a German U-Boat conducting rescue operations upon Allied troops was deliberately attacked by a US bomber.
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