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TIL that Freddy Mercury once snuck Princess Diana into a gay bar disguised as a man.

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Oo1M4 TIL of Du Yuesheng, a Triad boss who was granted the rank of general in the Nationalist Chinese army after he ordered his gang to massacre 1000s of communist supporters. He then became head of the Opium Suppression Bureau, which he used to seize opium to be sold by his own criminal organization.
DLxp TIL: Eminem has more Oscars than Leonardo DiCaprio.
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