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TIL when Kelly Clarkson played "Because of You" (which she wrote) for Clive Davis to consider for her album, he said it was a shitty song because it didn't rhyme. He then played her a song he felt should be included "Behind These Hazel Eyes" but got confused when he realized she had written that too

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67d7 TIL Sean Connery was offered a contract to play for Manchester United, but turned it down to pursue acting.
XEXvE TIL that during WW2, the Ukrainian and Polish partisans fought a bloody civil war concurrent with the German and Soviet invasions. Both sides committed heinous atrocities that killed tens of thousands of Polish and Ukrainian civilians.
1a45X TIL when Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco was assasinated in 1973, the bomb was so powerful that it sent his car flying over the roof of a building and into the courtyard.
78LbM Til in 2000, a convicted murderer on death row's execution was denied because he was "too fat to hang"
VMvy8 TIL The number of men and women in the world is roughly equal, though men hold a slight lead, men (50.4%) women (49.6%). Males have a higher risk of dying than females, both in childhood and at adult ages. So at a certain age, the numbers of men and women even out. In France this occurs at age 25