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TIL that "One step beyond" by 70s-80s UK band Madness is a cover of a 1964 song by artist Prince buster (Cecil Bustamente Campbell)

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AVAa TIL: Wu-Tang Clan Rapper Ol’ Dirty Bastard (R.I.P.) saved the life of a 4 year old girl who had gotten trapped under a car after being ran-over. ODB ran to the scene of the accident and organized a group of about a dozen onlookers to lift the car off of the little girl.
b9oMQ TIL that William Shakespeare invented many popular phrases for his plays that we still use in everyday life, including: 'vanish into thin air,' 'there's a method to my madness,' 'wild-goose chase",' 'wear my heart upon my sleeve,' 'love is blind,' 'to come full circle,' etc.
WmB TIL that the wage inequality between men and women is hardly a result of gender discrimination.
QNdOE TIL that Lucifer by Franz von Stuck, A painting that depicts Lucifer The fallen angel once terrified ministers of Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, who made the sign of the cross upon first sight of the fallen archangel.
9w5G7 TIL A raunchy adult joke book was a bestseller during the 80s!