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TIL that “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper is a cover, and was originally written and recorded by George Hazard in 1979

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e0LE6 TIL that Lois Duncan, the author of I Know What You Did Last Summer, abandoned writing YA horror/thrillers (a genre she is largely responsible for popularising) after her own daughter was murdered in a still-unsolved case.
m1nGE TIL about the story of Cimon and Pero in which a man condemned to starvation for stealing a loaf of bread is covertly breastfed and sustained by his daughter who visits him everyday in the prison.
rRNY0 TIL the film Back to the Future is banned in China because it features time travel
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