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TIL Gwyneth Paltrow actually sang/recorded the cover of the song "Cruisin" (originally by Smokey Robinson) with Huey Lewis & The News

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GAMgj TIL that the 1998 film Small Soldiers nearly received an R Rating due to violence & explosions
W7r14 TIL about Dr.Yusuf Hamied, a billionaire and chairman of Cipla Pharma, who is known as "Robin Hood", while Big Pharma calls him a "Pirate". He stood up to the big pharma and manufactured generic AIDS drugs bringing down the cost from $12,000 per year to $350 per year, thus saving millions of lives
VB75G TIL: The oldest grocery store in the Americas is in Quebec City
l7WKa TIL longer passwords are considered more secure than more complex passwords. A password of length 20 using only letters and numbers is much more secure than a password of length 15 that uses letters, numbers, and symbols
vPpRD TIL A 2021 study reported the first known occurrence of pack hunting by electric eels.