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TIL Bill Burr is a licensed helicopter pilot

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VMVdB TIL that the term, Luck of the Irish, was originally an insult. It was said sarcastically as the Irish have historically had bad luck, such as the potato famine.
98er TIL Neil Young is developing a new audio format called Pono, which “aims are to confront the compressed audio inferiority that MP3s offer”, “to present songs as they first sound during studio recording sessions”
mxNpY TIL that lose yourself was the first rap song to ever win an Oscar, but Eminem didn't think it would win so he never attended the award show and watched cartoons with his daughter
NX0mP TIL the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling. This perpetuated the myth that lemmings commit mass-suicide for years to come.
6EXAl TIL african american woman Iomikoe Johnson with extreme vitiligo has been slowly turning white. One point she was suicidal and is now happy and a model.