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TIL the air force has a program in place that will keep B-52 bombers flying for over a hundred years since they were manufactured

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xeE5 TIL Tom Morello (RATM, Audioslave, The Nightwatchman) was born to a civil rights advocate and a Kenyan revolutionary. He also graduated from Harvard University.
VM8dB TIL the melody for the “alphabet song” was written by Mozart
jNmKn TIL that when Fleetwood Mac broke up mid-tour, their manager decided he owned the name of the band and continued the tour with a completely different band, which he renamed to Fleetwood Mac
b6nA4 TIL that in Wuppertal, Germany in 1950, the circus elephant Tuffi broke through a window of a moving overhead railway and fell 12 metres down in a river, while on promotion tour for a circus. Luckily she survived with minor injuries.
J1nBv TIL A Clockwork Orange is the first Science Fiction AND the last X Rated film Ever to be nominated for Best Picture