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TIL The term 'Mahoska' from 'The Untouchables', misquoted as 'mahaska', originates from the Irish phrase 'My Business'.

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neoZd TIL There is a theory that Grandpa Jo in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' is the story's villain. Jo claims to be unable to work, accepts Charlie's money for tobacco, relies on his poor family to feed him. Jo's deception is revealed when Charlie finds a golden ticket, & begins singing and dancing
OGDbL TIL Rob Baur, a fan of The Simpsons, successfully grafted a "tomacco" plant in 2003
JYrYk TIL that in 1997 an Air Force pilot stole a fully loaded A-10 Thunderbolt II and apparently committed suicide by crashing it into a Colorado mountain. The ordinance was not with the aircraft when it was found and has never been recovered.
D1Jgj TIL Sub-replacement fertility that is a fertility rate which, if sustained, leads to each new generation being less populous than the older is around 2.33 as opposed to the intuitive guess of 2 children per woman.
d8r4d TIL 17-year-old Kenny Loggins wasn't going to be able to record his song "House at Pooh Corner" because Disney was enforcing their copyright to Winnie the Pooh. Upset, he mentioned this to his girlfriend, only to find out her dad was the president of Disney– he soon got permission.