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BgLEK TIL That the laboratory sets for Mel Brooks' "Young Frankenstein" were made up of pieces from the set of the original "Frankenstein". Brooks was able to contact Ken Strickfaden who built many of the original sets and still had parts of them in his possession and agreed to lend them to the movie.
wyvo TIL that the world’s oldest known dildo is approximately 30,000 years old.
a16y TIL the US Navy shot down a civilian airliner en route to Dubai from Tehran in 1988, killing 290 people, in Iranian airspace and waters.
NXmdP TIL the jute industry began as a byproduct of the whaling industry, when it was discovered that mixing whale oil with raw jute fiber made it possible to spin that fiber into fabric.
EKQV TIL The band “The Who” were banned for life from all Holiday Inns when Keith Moon started a food fight with a 5-tier cake, once the police arrived he stripped to his underwear, jumped into his car, drove it through a fence and left it in the bottom of the Flint Holiday Inn pool.