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TIL At the end of high school, Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, was voted “Most Likely to Write for The Simpsons.” Then at the age of 23, Glover was hired by Tina Fey to write for 30 Rock after he submitted a spec script (a non-commissioned unsolicited screenplay) about The Simpsons.

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N7W11 TIL the opening crawl to Star Wars begins with a storybook-esque narration ("A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....") because George Lucas first imagined his films as stories being told by an ancient race of immortals. The immortals were written out for early films, but this vestige remained.
PKAg TIL, that Texas abolished all special last-meal requests after condemned prisoner Lawrence Russell Brewer requested a huge last meal and did not eat any of it, saying he was not hungry.
VBoLG TIL that Jules Verne's Mysterious Island was based on Frisland, an island that appeared on maps from the 16th to the 18th century. Frisland was a hoax contrived by a pair of brothers who devised a culture reminiscent of the societies of Gulliver's Travels.
VDE0 TIL of the Bugis, an ethnic group in Indonesia whose society recognises five genders. Four are comparable to cis/trans male/female respectively, while the fifth, bissu, transcends gender.
e0ax5 TIL that USA once detonated atomic bombs and placed a bunch of beer near them. They concluded that, in the event of a atomic blast, beer is mostly safe to drink.