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TIL the organ seen in the ballroom on the original Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland is actual organ played by Captain Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

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Z8Jl4 TIL John. F. Kennedy's brain was stored at the National Archive after his autopsy. The brain was lost in 1966 and has been missing since.
4gb TIL Ernest Hemingway used a machine gun when fishing, to shoot sharks, and was the first person to ever boat a giant tuna in an undamaged state.
yoXX TIL Crispin Glover (Marty’s dad in Back to the Future) had a music career. Also he is insane. Here is is cover of “These Boots are Made for Walking.”
nGW TIL that you spend 40 minutes of each day blind
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