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TIL that Kendrick Lamar was the first rapper to ever win the Pulitzer Price. This is the first time the award has gone to non-classical or non-jazz musical work.

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rQDW TIL Privately-owned K9 teams are increasingly being used by parents to sniff out drugs hidden around their homes by their teenage children
NXepE TIL that Alistair Cooke, the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992, had his bones stolen and sold on the black market for use in bone grafts. The cancer from which he died had spread to his bones, making them unsuitable for grafts.
RYG8 TIL Birds have two fovea, meaning they can switch between focusing on their central vision and their peripheral vision. You never know when a bird is looking directly at you.
BBOk TIL creativity has been linked to depression, anxiety, and “madness”, with writers being 121% more likely to suffer from bipolar depression than the general population and 50% more likely to kill themselves.
Rjp1 TIL Roger Ebert refused to give “The Human Centipede” a star rating, stating that it was unsuited for the film and that whether it was good or bad didn’t matter.