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TIL Princess Diana used to go to bars with Freddy Mercury dressed as a man so she wouldn’t be recognized.

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6PV8 TIL that in Colorado, medical marijuana dispensaries outnumber Starbucks locations 3 to 1
GAg6G TIL about Osteo-Odonto-Keratoprosthesis (OOKP) or Tooth-in-Eye Surgery. Pioneered in the 1960s, where surgeons would put a tooth in a blind person's eye and it can restore sight. It still happens to this day
XE4bP TIL: In 1696, William III introduced a tax which required those living in houses with more than 6 windows to pay a levy.To avoid this, house owners would brick up all windows except 6. As the bricked-up windows prevented rooms from receiving any sunlight, the tax was known as daylight robbery.
R7mQl TIL that having a substantial amount of fat in the buttocks that extends to the front and back thighs and tapers to knee, causing a curvaceous figure, is called “steatopygia”
dygZ TIL in 1918, after a white man was killed by a black man, a white mob went on a week-long riot and killed at least 13 people, including an African-American woman. She was burned alive, and her unborn baby was cut from her stomach and crushed because she spoke out against her husband’s murder.