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TIL: Somebody is using a retired 727 as a home outside Portland, OR

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VMNLG TIL most of the Total War franchise's music was composed by Jeff Van Dyck. His wife Angela van Dyck even features in some of Rome Total War's songs like Forever, which plays during the credits and Angela also wrote the lyrics for the song Divinitus, written in quasi-Latin
v17Lj TIL about the feud between Howard Hughes and Frank Sinatra over the affections of Ava Gardner, culminating in Sinatra driving a golf cart through a café window, a resulting fist-fight in which Sinatra lost two teeth, and ultimately led to the Mob's withdrawal from Vegas.
ayNA TIL that Abraham Lincoln was an elite wrestler in his days before politics. He once challenged a crowd, saying, “I’m the big buck of this lick. If any of you want to try it, come on and whet your horns.” The challenge went unanswered.
VAwk TIL That Min Chiu Li, the first man to chemotherapeutically cure adult cancer patients, was fired by the NCI for his achievement.
R71D4 TIL Kodak once made crayons