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TIL the iconic plane that lands at the beginning of each Fantasy Island episode was used multiple times for drug running and seized by the DEA .

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9Yv6r TIL Students at Columbia College are required to pass a swimming test before receiving their diploma, in addition to its rigorous Core Curriculum
D1nme TIL the first theaters in the early 1900's charged a five cents for admission, and were therefore named "nickelodeons."
9Y8oD TIL about US presidential pet hamsters Debbie and Billie. Billie, who ate his own children, who was then eaten by Debbie, who then died of indigestion.
OjPL TIL of actor William Haines (1900–1973), who quit acting in 1935 when his studio employer, MGM, tried to pressure him into ending his relationship with his male partner and entering into a “lavender marriage” to hide his homosexuality. Instead, the two started a successful interior design business.
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