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TIL After leaving the Velvet Underground, Lou Reed moved to his parents' home on Long Island, and took a job at his father's tax accounting firm as a typist, by his own account earning $40 a week.

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kDWg TIL the Simpsons’ “Bart Gets an Elephant” is based on an episode of “The Price is Right”. An elephant was offered as a “bonus prize” as a joke. The real prize was $4,000 but the contestant wanted the elephant . The contestant got his wish & a live elephant from Kenya was delivered to him.
K1pa TIL: Of the 7,377 Lancaster Bombers built, only 2 remain.
L8d9 TIL Whales have accents and regional dialects
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