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TIL South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut was originally issued an NC-17 rating. According to Trey and Matt, “they edited the film with something more vulgar every time they submitted it to the MPAA again”.

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WkQwX TIL that Kendrick Lamar, an american rapper, won the Pulitzer Prize for Musical Composition for his album DAMN earlier this year making him the first non-jazz or Classical artist to ever win the prize in history.
XEWWj TIL, animators who failed while working on other projects within Dreamworks, were often sent to work on Shrek. The reassignment was known as being "Shreked" and being sent to "the Gulag".
YproB Today I learned that stock market fraud has been around since the 16-18th centuries
0wdAR Possibly. The trees-down (or “arboreal”) hypothesis has been around for many years, says evolutionary biologist Richard O. Prum of Yale University. Researchers guessed that the scales of tree-dwelling Triassic reptiles elongated into feathers, which helped them leap away from predators. Once the proto-birds could glide, they were en route to avian flight. “It was like one big, crazy hairball of ideas all stuck together,” Prum says.
Gn54 TIL that pi can be (roughly) calculated by throwing hot dogs.