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TIL that Kendrick Lamar's DAMN is the first non classical/jazz musical work to win the Pulitzer Music Prize. The awards began in 1943.

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wpxP TIL The Egyptians, not Julius Caesar, were the fathers of the modern calendar. The Roman calendar was lunar and had 355 days. Egyptians knew it was 365 days because the Nile would peak on the same day each year. Caesar learned this from his affair with Cleopatra and created the Julian calendar.
gM6mA TIL A few months ago a team of doctors at San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, successfully treated spina bifida in an unborn baby. This was the first case in Europe.
JYGnj TIL There are no such thing as kangaroo farms, all kangaroo meat served in grocery stores and restaurants around the world is sourced from wild populations
VMDVm TIL that William McBride, an Australian obstetrician who helped determine the link between thalidomide and birth defects, was years later de-registered for falsifying scientific data to claim that another drug also caused birth defects.
ADMr7 TIL: The guy who played Carlo in the Godfather shot and killed a member of the Medellin Cartel who was harassing a female patron in his casino and who had stabbed him with a broken bottle. Pablo Escobar put out a hit until he realized the target was in one of his favorite movies.