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TIL American rapper Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album ‘DAMN’. This marks the first time the Pulitzer Prize in Music went to someone outside the classical or jazz community.

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aGno TIL that Quentin Tarantino wants to stop making films when he is around 60 years old (he is currently 52) because he doesn’t want to “fuck up his filmography with a bunch of old-man stuff.”
epVlJ TIL that the origins of the white wedding dress can be traced back to Queen Victoria’s marriage to her first cousin, Prince Albert, in 1840. They were married for 21 years until his death on December 14, 1861.
0wp7R TIL about Danny the Street, a DC hero that is a sentient street that can teleport. He crossdresses, by lining the streets with gun shops with frilly lace. He reverts to become a brick, kills a god, becomes a planet, then turns into an ambulance.
a8DGy TIL about the Euthanasia Coaster, a hypothetical steel rollercoaster designed as a euthanasia device to kill its passengers
aDg0 TIL George Harrison financed the Monty Python film ‘The Life of Brian’, simply because he wanted to see it