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TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once got so wasted before a meeting with the German head of CBS Europe, he left thinking he had ‘lightened the mood’ with a striptease. In reality, he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table before dipping his testicles in, then urinating in, the director’s wine.

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