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

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Ooylg TIL a woman in France accidentally received a phone bill of €11,721,000,000,000,000 (million billion). This was 5000x the GDP of France at the time. It took several days of wrangling before the phone company finally admitted it was a mistake and she owed just €117.21. They let her off.
WyM9 TIL Germany only fully paid off their WWI reparations 2 years ago.
wLWPY TIL that Eminem and Elton John have been close friends for two decades
16RK8 TIL that in 2021 a woman in South Africa claimed to have given birth to 10 babies at once. A government inquiry found the claim to be untrue, but the news organisation who first reported the story has alleged that it was a cover-up. The woman has not been seen or heard from since.
neB1b TIL Mango sap is caustic