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TIL Kendrick Lamar is the only non-classical or Jazz musician to win The Pulitzer Prize for music

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9Yggr TIL Kirk Blocker aka Hitchcock on Brooklyn Nine Nine is the son of actor Dan Blocker aka Hoss on Bonanza
XEX6 TIL modern hospitals use maggots to clean wounds when antibiotics won’t work.
yaJw TIL a CIA handbook taught torture methods to extract information from people without extracting fingernails and stressed on importance of psychological over physical torture, i.e. intense fear, deep exhaustion, solitary confinement and unbearable anxiety which destroy ones capacity to resist.
yVb1w TIL Warhol's 'Shot Marilyns' series got its name from performance artist Dorothy Podber asking him if she could shoot the series she saw were stacked in his studio & thinking she meant photograph them, he agreed. She then took a gun from her purse & shot a hole in 4 of the 5 paintings in the series.
pYddA TIL Time did not originally name a "Man of the Year" in 1941; Dumbo the elephant, whose film was released that year, was supposed to be "Mammal of the Year". Then Pearl Harbor happened and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was quickly anointed "Man of the Year" (for a record third time).