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TIL that Kendrick Lamar On April 16, 2018, won the Pulitzer prize. He was the first and only rapper till today to do this.

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Br5RW TIL in 1935, singing cowboy Gene Autry released a Western film in which he is kidnapped by an ancient underground civilization with robots and television.
D1OQD TIL birds can not only eat jellies, jams, marmalades, but they also have a preference for flavours!
690jZ TIL that once during a party at his mansion in New Orleans, Nick Cage revealed his two-headed snake, Harvey, after Harvey Dent. Among the crowd in attendance was Werner Herzog who insisted the snake be in his next film. Cage replied “No, I’m not putting it into the movie because this is personal.”
ZD4Y TIL that Snopes, wanting to stress that people shouldn’t believe everything they read, created a few entries with myths they made up and marked them “true”. Tv channel TLC ran an urban legends show that on one episode said something to be true. That something was one of the myths created by Snopes.
JYGwk TIL that around the Pittsburgh and Cleveland areas during the depression, pork and veal offcuts were cheaper than chicken, leading to "city chicken" a breaded stick of pork and veal that was fried up like chicken.