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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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1088 TIL The first person to receive a Social Security check,Ida May Fuller, collected $22,889 despite only contributed $25.
4omN TIL In 1970, Mississippi lawmakers banned “Sesame Street” from being broadcast statewide claiming the integration of the show’s neighborhood was “offensive” to some of the state’s residents.
xVmdk TIL the 2012 Summer Olympic Committee contacted the manager of “The Who” to see if drummer Keith Moon was available to perform at the Olympics. Unbeknownst to them, he died 34 years earlier in 1978.
loglN TIL There's a chain of cafés in The Netherlands called Brownies & Downies, where you are being served by people with Down syndrome.
VMwlp TIL Where the Wild Things Are was originally titled Where the Wild Horses Are. The title changed because the author, Maurice Sendak, didn't know how to draw horses. When asked by his editor what he could draw, he said "things" and "things" is what he drew.