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TIL, in order to ensure Kendrick Lamar didn’t have a ghostwriter Eminem kicked everyone out of the studio and made him write a verse on the spot

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XEpKr TIL Charles Darwin ate every animal he ever discovered. Seeking out “birds and beasts which were unknown to human palate.”
6EaXY TIL Ringo Star and Carlin did voice overs for years on Thomas the Tank Engine
m1YjY TIL that In ancient China, Spanish Fly beetles were mixed with human excrement, arsenic, and wolfsbane to make the world's first recorded stink bomb
D1b5v TIL: After training together to fly the the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission between USA and USSR in 1975, American astronaut Thomas Stafford and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remained life long friends, and Leonov even became the godfather to Stafford's younger children.
XEEvP TIL that the Philippines' ancient script is called Baybayin.