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TIL in 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.

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grPy7 TIL: In older Abrahamic religions, Eve was not the first woman, but rather she came after Lilith. She was banished from the Garden of Eden after being disobedient towards Adam.
rNOmw TIL when Jim Morrison was in his senior year, the books he read and reported on were all so offbeat, that teachers thought he made them up. A teacher also went to the Library of Congress to check if the books actually existed. He also had an IQ of 149, which is generally considered genius level.
D1MKD TIL in the 1975 film, The Giant Spider Invasion, “To motivate the screenwriter, who was told to write 10 to 15 pages a day, Rebane (the director/producer )locked him in a cabin and told him to finish the daily task or he would not be fed.”
VMoam TIL that when a bald eagle loses a feather on one wing, it molts a matching feather on the other wing.