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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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DQD5V TIL Bela Lugosi never said he wanted to be buried wearing a Dracula cape, his family made the decision.
0wxO5 TIL: Swing music never really fell out of popularity, it was shut down by ASCAP in 1941. ASCAP demanded more royalties from broadcasters- they refused. ASCAP banned their repertoire and demanded preapproval of set lists and written solos for live broadcasts. This effectively ended the Swing Era.
VBojm TIL that The National Library of Medicine has a Pillbox dataset made up of 8,693 photographs of pills, with an accompanying database of drug information. It was built to help with the identification of unknown pills.
8dQV TIL Raw Oysters are still alive when you eat them
0W0L TIL in 1993 Jack in the Box caused the most infamous food poison outbreak in contemporary history, 732 people were infected with E. coli, 4 children died and 178 other victims were left with permanent injury including kidney and brain damage.