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TIL Lady Gaga is the first woman in history to win an Oscar, Grammy, BAFTA & Golden Globe in a single year, in 2019 for her perfomance in A Star is Born

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xVrdB TIL a man who made a fortune transplanting goat testicles into humans nearly became governor of Kansas.
6gpl TIL the little mermaid should have ended with Ariel dissolving into a foamy mess - including a link to other not so happy endings to other Disney stories
Ny0M TIL Ernest Hemingway once out drank 14 Chinese army officers. “Slowly officers grew scarlet in the face and slid beneath the table; others went green-white and fell as if shot,”…Hemingway, by contrast, “was planted on his feet like Atlas.”
J1nDl TIL Michael Berryman (1982 Hills Have Eyes) was also in Motley Crue’s Home Sweet Home Music Video as the person who hands the phone to each one of the band members calling them away
LQ1bP TIL in the late 70s, Martin Scorsese was very depressed & struggling with a dangerous coke addiction. Once, while hospitalized w/ internal bleeding, De Niro visited & convinced him to make another movie, to save his life. Scorsese agreed, sure it would be his last film. It was Raging Bull.