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TIL that Kanye West's "Gold Digger" was originally written from the female perspective, to be sung in the first person by artist Shawnna, e.g. "I ain't saying I'm a gold digger, but..."

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OoDO4 TIL: Astronauts left their poop on the moon. They threw out the garbage thinking everything would be sanitized by the solar radiation. Scientists don't know if the microbes in the feces are still alive, but future moon missions will investigate that.
69yxX TIL Jessica Cantillan, a 17 yr old Mexican citizen received the wrong heart and lung in a transplant surgery at Duke University in 2003. The transplant surgeon (world renowned)wasn't notified untIl the end of surgery. Her body rejected the organs and despite a second surgery, she died.
gVxb TIL that Marie Curie was at the center of a sex scandal (cheated on her husband with a student & it leaked to the press) at the same time she was winning her second Nobel Prize.
epbOn TIL that Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh (released November 26, 1996) was the first commercially released video game to feature a canonically queer protagonist. The game’s protagonist Curtis Craig, was an openly bisexual man navigating trauma, a corporate job, and supernatural horror.
krGd TIL in 1979 a British artist published a book containing riddles and puzzles about the location where he had buried an 18kt gold filigree and jeweled pendant, setting off a worldwide treasure hunt which lasted over two years, and ended in scandal.