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TIL because George Kennedy was the only actor in all four Airport movies, he was offered a role in its parody film, Airplane. He turned it down, because he "didn't want to kill off his Airport cash cow."

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VMrWk TIL Finishing an $11 12-pack every three days will cost about $1,338 in a year. Spending $60 a weekend going out to drink will cost $3,120 in a year, so the annual cost of alcohol addiction is $4,500+
VBG7Q TIL that the BlueSky social media network has the same name as its current CEO, Lantian "Jay" Graber, whose first name means "blue sky" in Mandarin
ANWM7 TIL that in 1684 Henry Morgan the "privateer" successfully sued the publishers of the books on piracy in the Caribbean for libel; as a result, the description of Morgan using nuns and monks as human shields were purged from subsequent British editions of "History of the Buccaneers of America"
J1LYQ TIL in the early 1940s, the average children’s book cost between $2 and $3, which would be the equivalent of about $38 to $50 today. “The Little Golden Book series" started in 1942 and made high quality kids books affordable at 25¢ or $4.20 today
grVYW TIL In its heyday, Yale, British Columbia, was named the largest town north of San Francisco and west of Chicago, with a peak population of about 16,000 and a reputation for lawlessness and violence