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TIL Dave Chappelle will dress as Prince on Prince’s new album cover

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Z8Gba TIL Many of the tropes we associate with superheroes were invented by a woman, Baroness Emma Orczy, who wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905
Aedg TIL Forrest Gump beat ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ and 'Pulp Fiction’ to win the Oscar for the Best Picture in 1995. Also, Tom Hanks beat Morgan Freeman and John Travolta to win the Best Actor in the same year.
v1KNr TIL Spuds Mackenzie, the Bud Light mascot dog, was actually a lady dog named Honey Tree Evil Eye. She was retired because her fame (and controversy) overshadowed the beer giant’s product
p8aYG TIL Murder rates in Miami, Florida were so high during the 1970s and 1980s that the Dade County Medical Examiner’s Office had to rent a refrigerated trailer from Burger King to handle the overflow of corpses
vd87 TIL that Charles Grey, the Second Earl Grey, established real democracy in Britain, abolished slavery throughout the empire, and is only remembered as a tea blend.