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TIL: Freddie Mercury dressed Lady Diana in drag and snuck her into a gay club.

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7rZBp TIL during World War II, young black musicians started calling each other "man" as a sign of respect, in part because they were so tired of being referred to as "boy".
N7oBM TIL in 1932, Mussolini described antisemitism as a "German vice" and stated that "There was 'no Jewish Question' in Italy and could not be one in a country with a healthy system of government."
XExRE TIL about Matilda Joslyn Gage, an abolitionist, suffragist and theosophist who wrote a book called “Women, Church and State.” She was also “The Wizard of Oz” author L Frank Baum’s mother in law, and it is suggested she inspired his “good witches.”
kOWJ7 TIL that the “BASE" in BASE jumping is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: building, antenna, span, and earth
LQlep TIL about Lake Agassiz, a proglacial lake that was larger than all the Great Lakes combined