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TIL Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

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M7j88 TIL that Apple has a no-villains clause for iPhones. According to director Rian Johnson, anyone who portrays a bad guy using an iPhone in a film will never receive cooperation from the company again.
gr8lL TIL about Bob. Bob is a racing pigeon that got lost on routine flight across the English Channel… and ended up in Alabama.
wXNM TIL that acid in the 60s was so much stronger that you would have to eat 7.8 tabs of today’s acid to have a similar experience.
ADPnd TIL when asked to describe an “outstanding event at Yankee Stadium” for a 50th anniversary celebration of the stadium Mickey Mantle described a blowjob he got from a fan underneath the right field bleachers
4NXJ TIL Steve Martin was rehearsing to guest host the season finale of SNL when he learned of Gilda Radner’s death. Fighting back tears, he scrapped his planned monologue, and chose instead to open the show with a video of he and Radner dancing a parody of Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.