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TIL Kenny G holds the record for longest note played on a sax with and E-Flat at 45 minutes 47 seconds

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nWj1G TIL sheep, goats, llamas, and donkeys graze the O’Hare Airport property each season
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woey6 TIL that William Turner, the captain of the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915, was also the captain of the SS Ivernia when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat in 1917.
9wwpB TIL the Boeing 747 can carry an extra engine on its wing. Airlines used to use this capability regularly, when engines were less reliable, to deliver replacements to their stranded planes.
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