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TIL Dido, who sang the chorus of the controversial Eminem song “stan,” named her son Stanley after the song.

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d8BRZ TIL Villas Las Estrellas, a settlement of around 100 people in Antarctica, requires everyone (adults and children) who live there long term to have a preemptive appendectomy. While there are a few doctors there, none of them are specialized. The closest major hospital is over 600 miles away.
DQKwr TIL there was a math question on the 1982 SAT that every single test taker got wrong. The question was so paradoxical that the creators were confused and didn’t include the actual answer as part of the selection. All 300,000 exams had to be rescored.
5Y08n TIL American rapper Kendrick Lamar won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2017 album ‘DAMN’. This marks the first time the Pulitzer Prize in Music went to someone outside the classical or jazz community.
La7Z TIL: ACDC wasn’t allowed to sing the second verse of “Highway to Hell” due to time restrictions during the grammys, so they sang at half speed as a f*ck you
Ege0W TIL: Africa, at 30,500 km of Coastline, Has Less Than Half of the EU’s 68,000 km Despite Being Three Times Larger