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TIL Howard Hughes bought an entire casino just so he could tear down their neon sign. Visible from Hughes’ bedroom, it apparently had kept him up at night.

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VBoKQ TIL the phrase "pulling out all the stops" is derived from pipe organs, which have many levers called 'stops' which allow the organist to control the volume and timbre of different pipes. Pulling out all the stops would result in the loudest, most comprehensive sound.
dDkyB TIL Thomas F. Wilson, Yakov Smirnoff, and Andrew Dice Clay were roommates when they were breaking into comedy. TFW is best-known as Biff from the Back To The Future series of movies.
7rgDO TIL When Sir Richard Owen (a critic of evolution by natural selection) bought a recently discovered Archaeopteryx feather, he was embarrassed to discover it was a missing link between reptiles and birds, which contradicted his belief that God had created the species by tweaking 'archetypes'.
N7vLN TIL of Elizabeth Lundy, the "grandmother of the Canadian Army". Starting in 1914, she knit 400 pairs of socks for Canadian soldiers serving overseas.
Eg4aP TIL Birds can eat rice safely, they don't explode and die. It was a 1996 urban legend that has been spread every wedding season.