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TIL David Bowie's final album "Blackstar" was heavily influenced by Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp A Butterfly"

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gMRQ7 TIL Airbrush illustrations require you to cut out little pieces of film, or "frisket", with an X-acto knife and put them back for every area you want to color. I now appreciate Photoshop that much more.
6p9J TIL a statue of ‘homeless Jesus’ sleeping on a bench was installed in Orlando where the homeless are banned from sleeping on benches
Y7m7W TIL in US music notation, the name Do doesn't refer to a specific note (C) but to the first note of the scale you're using. So any note can be called Do
awk4A TIL that Jeopardy was canceled twice before the current incarnation of the show. It ran for 11 years before it was canceled & the reboot only lasted 3 months. Alex Trebek was a producer who made the show "his own" leading to it's current & longtime success.
6ENlY TIL there's a sequel to "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with Johnny Cash as the narrator. In it, the Devil returns to Georgia to challenge Johnny to a rematch. The Devil loses.