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TIL that the song "whataya want from me" was written by Pink for the album Funhouse. But never released. Released by Adam Lambert in 2009, with great succes. And in 2010 released by Pink on her "Greatest hits...So far" album.

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XEArE TIL of Hussain al-Shahristani. An Iraqi who was forced into solitary confinement in prison for 8 years under Saddam Hussein. He kept his sanity by “making up mathematical problems, which he then tried to solve.” He later became Iraq’s minister of higher education and scientific research.
Eg9xw TIL World Snail Racing Championships was held from 2008 to 2019. The 2019 champion, Sammy the snail, covered the 13 inch course in 2 mins 38 secs.
yQv9e TIL of Rope Memory where women would weave SOFTWARE by hand for the Apollo program
loZ4a TIL that the first free black community in the New World, Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, was created by the Spanish government of St Augustine, Florida, in 1738. They began to offer asylum as early as 1687 to slaves of the British colonies, and often fought the British alongside each other.
gr9JL TIL the oldest ever porn film is called El Satario (1917). It features a man dressed as the devil stealing a women into a cave, where they then have sex before being chased away.