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TIL that Huey Lewis intended his 1986 song "Hip to be Square" to be ironic — his original lyrics were in the third person. He thought that the first person would make the joke funnier, but laments that the change made him "mis[tell]" it instead, turning the song into an "anthem for square people."

1abxX TIL about Quaker and slave trader Zephaniah Kingsley, Jr. who advocated, and practiced, racial mixing as a way toward ending slavery. These views were tolerated in Spanish Florida. After Florida became a U.S. territory in 1821, he moved with his multiple "wives", children, and slaves to Haiti.
VB6aG TIL that Lenore Zann, the voice actress for Rogue in the '90s X-Men cartoon and X-Men '97, served as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada from 2019 to 2021.
oBr7W TIL in the critically-reviewed movie Eighth Grade, Apple pulled out from providing free laptops and phones to the film after the producers refused to remove a scene where an iPhone gets broken. The laptops and phones shown belong to the crew and the broken iPhone scene was kept in. (Audio 1:25:55)
9YeJr TIL on occasion, animals have been granted a degree, despite not doing any classes. Animals are often used as a device to clearly demonstrate the lax standards of the awarding institutions. In one case, a cat's degree helped lead to a fraud prosecution against the institution that had issued it.
e0ZXJ TIL a Nigerian ship's cook, Harrison Odjegba Okene, survived for 60 hours in a sunken tugboat, Jascon-4, that capsized on 26 May 2013 in heavy seas while it was stabilising an oil tanker at a Chevron platform in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, about 32 km (20 mi) off the Nigerian coast