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TIL M. Night Shyamalan wrote the 90’s hit “She’s All That”.

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Eggx TIL on August 9, 1965, Singapore was expelled from Malaysia, becoming the first and only country to date to achieve independence unwillingly
6EW4Y TIL Alfonso Ribeiro, best known for his dorky dancing Carlton character in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, started his career as a highly trained dancer. Before Carleton he had tap danced on Broadway, danced in a Pepsi commercial with Michael Jackson, and released a break dancing instructional video.
VBr5B TIL that the Mohawk language, which lacks the consonants P and B in native vocabulary, substituted them with K and W respectively in early loanwords from French. The modern language has now borrowed P as a consonant restricted to loanwords.
X0p8Q TIL that sex verification in elite sports was tried via chromosomal testing. It was abandoned by the IOC in 1999 after athletes' chromosome results not aligning with their assigned sex.
nxM9 TIL in 1911 British Antarctic explorer George Murray Levick observed the sexual habits of an Adélie Penguin rookery. The habits included necrophilia, coercion and homosexuality. The report was deemed too indecent at the time and was only published in 2012.