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TIL Snoop Dog wrote a cook book that has very good reviews.

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4XwpJ TIL the first successful penis transplant went to a soldier who suffered a devastating injury from an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan
ne1EY TIL that Jason Paige, the singer of the original Pokémon Theme, didn't expect the song to become popular and knew nothing about the franchise when he recorded it. He considers the song to be a relatively minor part of his career, as he has worked with Michael Jackson, Billy Joel, and Frankie Valli.
v1v5D TIL that President Andrew Jackson taught his pet parrot how to curse. During Andrew Jackson's funeral, the parrot started to curse non-stop so it had to be removed from the funeral
Zbbv TIL that Carrie Fisher regularly got high on cocaine on set of The Empire Strikes Back, it got so bad that even John Belushi told her she had a problem.
yQEW8 TIL there was an official writer's guide for the original Star Trek series. The pages included story advice, character attributes ("Captain Kirk is a space-age Horatio Hornblower"), costuming ("no pockets or space suits"), Stardate calculation, and told writers to contact NASA for technical advice.