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TIL Freddie Mercury once dressed Princess Diana up as a man and took her out clubbing.

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VM0ek TIL that a whale-sized asteroid, which could have easily destroyed an area the size of New York on collision, flew past Earth at nearly nine kilometers per sec. Surprisingly, the U.S. space agency, NASA, failed to detect the asteroid and spotted it only the day after it skimmed past the planet.
oE0W TIL that NASA, during the Apollo program, had to rename urinal sleeves in sizes “small, medium, and large” to “large, gigantic, and humongous” because astronauts would only select large (regardless of their size) and the sleeves kept slipping off.
w091 TIL : The skull Russians kept as evidence of Hitler’s death is actually the skull of a woman.
wonJM TIL that rainbows can be formed by light reflecting off the Moon, and are technically called "Moonbows"
xem7 TIL that contrary to popular belief, Einstein never failed math in school. In fact, by fifteen he had already mastered differential and integral calculus.