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TIL that Kesha, when auditioning for record labels, presented two demos: a “gorgeously sung, self-penned country ballad” and a “gobsmackingly awful trip-hop track”, allowing the label to decide which sound she should use as an artist.

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6EXpJ TIL there is a hijab like requirement for Christian women according to 1 Corinthians 11:6-10
R7lk7 TIL that before George Orwell wrote 1984, the Empire of Japan had established a political police known as the Shisō Keisatsu - which translated means "Thought Police". There also existed a "Thought Section of the Criminal Affairs Bureau". Until 1945, they arrested people for "dangerous ideologies".
1aOAX TIL Benny Medina created The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air after growing up poor in East LA. His life changed when he befriended a rich white teenager, whose family lived in Beverly Hills and allowed Medina to live with them. Medina decided to change the rich white family to a rich black family.
Qnoa TIL In China, women who remain unmarried in their late 20s and beyond are called “Sheng nu” which means “leftover women.”
JYGOQ TIL the US Army developed a process for “meat restructuring” in the 1960s, which directly led to the invention of the McRib