› added 9 years ago

375

TIL Freddie Mercury once dressed Princess Di up as a man and snuck her into a gay bar

Read more pinknews.co.uk

via reddit.com

Xgr6 TIL A Chicago reporter once asked Frank Sinatra’s first wife what she saw in him, calling him “a 119 pound has-been.” She told him, “Well, I’ll tell you — nineteen pounds is cock.”
VBKKm TIL of Elmer McCurdy; a funhouse prop that turned out to be a real corpse
wLB8J TIL that Stevie Nicks wrote the Fleetwood Mac song "Dreams" in about 10 minutes. The rest of the band disliked the song, with Christine McVie calling it "boring." Nicks begged them to record it and they eventually relented. It is the band's only US number one single.
1axl7 TIL that Joachim von Ribbentrop would summon tailors from British firms, make them wait for hours, and then send them away with instructions to return the next day, only to repeat the process. This damaged his reputation with British high society.
m1P9E TIL subway isn’t legally allowed to call its bread “bread” in Ireland. They consider it “cake”