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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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PYnWZ TIL about Polyandry, a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two or more husbands at the same time. One example of polyandry is in the Himalayan mountains, due to the scarcity of land. The marriage of all brothers in a family to the same wife allows family land to remain intact and undivided.
lm8B TIL Despite having survived on Earth for millions of years, Sturgeon are now more critically endangered than any other species due to increased demand for caviar, over fishing and pollution.
XEN6k TIL that the European Brown Hare can get pregnant during the late stages of another pregnancy. The embryos will wait in the oviduct for the previous litter to be born
nXyb TIL In addition to 6m Jews, the Nazis killed up to 11m others who did not fit the Aryan criteria
QJBZX TIL Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas resulted in a $125 Million Dollar loss to Dreamworks Animations. This resulting loss almost bankrupted the company, among other things explained by founder David Geffen.