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TIL world's largest functioning musical instrument is the Wanamaker Organ, located in the Macy's department store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Built-in 1904 for the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the organ boasts 28,750 pipes, six manuals, and 464 ranks, making it a truly massive and impress

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GY654 TIL a lawsuit between Gilbert O'Sullivan and Biz Markie over a sampling of "Alone Again" led to the requirement of licensing and fees to sample parts of song, which in turn made it prohibitively expensive to sample multiple songs into a new piece, which had been a common practice in hip hop
kOx0m TIL that cranberry sauce cans always have the label on 'upside-down' so that it will be stocked on shelves in the correct orientation, in order to preserve an air bubble in the can that makes it possible to get it out in one piece without having to open both ends.
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