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TIL Drake's 2018 hit "Nice for What" sampled Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor," which sampled Wu-Tang's "Can It All Be So Simple," which sampled Gladys Knight's cover of Streisand's "The Way We Were." So the writer of "The Way We Were" is also credited on "Nice for What" but no part of his writing is in it

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4kl16 TIL after the Crimean War, Queen Victoria praised soldiers’ facial hair as the mark of "real fighting men". Mustaches became mandatory until 1916, mainly because gas masks required a proper seal, prompting the army to drop the almost 60 year old rule and made them optional.
Y7GVZ TIL David Letterman once insulted Quentin Tarantino on his show, which made Tarantino call Letterman on the phone and threaten to come to NY to “kill” him. Letterman responded by offering to pay for his flight and have QT choose the method of battle. Tarantino agreed and chose “bats.”
X0DJE TIL that the Shire breed of horse was first developed as the "Great Horse" during the reign of King Henry VIII of England. Acts were passed in 1535 and 1541 forbidding the use for breeding of horses under 15 hands (60" at the shoulder) in height, also prohibiting all exportation, even into Scotland.
MeR47 TIL: The reason wedding rings are worn on the third finger is because in ancient Rome, it was believed that the vein in the third finger went straight to the heart.