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TIL Carole King wrote the song "You've Got a Friend" in response to James Taylor's "Fire and Rain", specifically the line "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend."

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0aGp TIL Victoria’s Secret model Karolína Kurková was born with a medical complication causing her to have no belly button. An artificial navel is photoshopped into each of her photographs.
0vw1 TIL that Steve Buscemi showed up at his old firehouse the day after the 9/11 tragedy in New York to volunteer, worked twelve hour shifts for a week digging through rubble looking for missing firefighters… anonymously.
dDDbr TIL that just like their Roman Enemies, Carthage transitioned from a Monarchy into a Republic. Their government was led by 2 Sufets (Judges) elected by a parliament mad up of the City's leading noble families. Unlike Rome however a separate, popularly-elected official commanded the military.
Zp5DR TIL in 1964, a country changed names during the Olympics. It entered the Olympics as Northern Rhodesia, a British protectorate, and left as Zambia, becoming fully independent on the day of the closing ceremony. The athletes marched in the ceremony with a new placard featuring the word "Zambia".
OX0Y TIL in 1893 the Queen of Hawaii attempted to restore power to the crown and the native Hawaiians, with the support of more than two-thirds of registered voters. She was immediately overthrown by American businessmen and Hawaii soon became part of the United States.