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TIL on Prince's debut album, For You, released in 1978, Prince wrote, arranged, composed, produced and performed the album all by himself

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4X8LN TIL It’s thought that Michael Jackson may have borrowed Smooth Criminal’s chorus “Annie, are you OK?” from a CPR class he took. The CPR training dummy is named Annie and trainees are taught to say “Annie, are you OK?” to check if the patient is responsive.
LkOgp TIL that Lisa Kudrow initially played Ursula Buffay in Mad About You and then was cast as Phoebe Buffay in Friends based on that performance, with the producers using it as an opportunity to set the two shows in the same universe.
VMdVG TIL that in 1933 6000 people were deported by the Soviet Union to an island in the middle of Siberia and were abandoned there without food or shelter. Within three weeks most of the prisoners were dead due to the widespread episodes of cannibalism. The island became known as “Cannibal Island”.
4X7YX TIL heavy metal band Mötley Crüe had an official Sega Genesis game.