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Today I learned Jimmy Carter has been in hospice for over 186 days.

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Z8ZMG TIL that "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-lot was a call to see beauty in diversity. Sir Mix-a-lot used the song to blame the media for skewing the notion of beauty and hoped his music would empower women of all shapes and sizes.
xrXB TIL in 2014, Fox News plagiarized BioShock Infinite’s logo in a segment on immigration titled “Defending the Homeland,” seemingly unaware of the game’s critical exploration of xenophobia.
9YkQm The ultimate meowstery, solved.
bBY7 TIL that a Magical Negro is a plot device used in American fiction where a black stock character offers his or her wisdom, insight, or magical powers to help a troubled, white main character
kOPme TIL the song American Woman was made by accident. While playing at a show in Ontario, Randy Bachman broke a guitar string. While tuning his guitar he came up with a great riff, he implored Burton Cummings to sing something, the first words out of his mouth were, "American woman, stay away from me."