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TIL Andre 3000 wrote the line "Now all Beyoncés and Lucy Lius" in the song Hey Ya because the music video for "Independent Women Part I" was playing on his TV as he wrote the song.

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b9QQp TIL The novel "The English Patient" by Michael Ondaatje won the Booker Prize in 1992, and then won the Golden Booker Award (a special one-off prize awarded in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Booker Prize) 26 years later, in 2018.
RPb8 TIL Daniel Craig used to sleep on park benches before he got regular acting work
QJxOp TIL that mudskippers use gill-chambers full of water as fishy scuba gear when they’re on land.
YpJ9B TIL Sally Tompkins, a nurse, was the first woman to be commissioned as an officer in any form of the United States army. She was commissioned as a captain in 1861. Under her supervision, she had the lowest death rate of any hospital -- Union or Confederate.
5YxOR TIL in Anchorage, Alaska, many large animals, such as moose, are hit by vehicles. While Motorists get first rights to roadkill; Charity groups sign up to collect large roadkill and the meat is donated to the needy.