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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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PLrZ TIL I learned that a “rat king” is a rare phenomenon when a number of rats become intertwined at their tails, which become stuck together with blood, dirt, ice, excrement or simply knotted. The animals reputedly grow together while joined at the tails and spread plague.
VnR4 TIL there is an adage known as Hanlon’s Razor. It states ‘Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.’
nxZ9 TIL that Jimmy Carter was the first president to be born in a hospital.
rP0e TIL a NY woman was startled to hear a loud crash in her apartment kitchen followed by the sounds of someone breathing inside her wall. The man inside had climbed into an air vent before falling six stories and getting stuck. He said it was part of the initiation for being new to the building.
6EM4W TIL that the reason some cops touch your car’s tail light during traffic stops is to leave fingerprint evidence. If the officer found himself in a dangerous situation, this would prove that he or she was present at the scene.