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TIL that Freddie Mercury is celebrated in Iran, a country where homosexuality is illegal, and that Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” was the 1st rock song officially approved post-revolution since he calls for God in Arabic (“Bismillah! We will not let you go”) to help regain his soul from Shaitan.

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