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TIL that ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ is a Neil Young disstrack.

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9YyVQ TIL President Eisenhower would watch almost any movie that featured cowboys except for ones with Robert Mitchum because of his arrest for marijuana possession. As soon as Ike saw Mitchum in a movie he would walk out.
wKG6 TIL ‘Scot’ is a Old English word meaning 'tax’. To say that someone got off 'scot free’ means they avoided a tax they were expected to pay.
69NYw TIL Most airports in the U.S. have incinerators that burn most of their waste and garbage. This includes burning roadkill, such as deer, that die on airport property.
yVG7l TIL that a group of flamingoes is called a flamboyance.
mxAZO TIL that in 1961 a DC-8 airliner broke the sound barrier for 14 seconds while in a dive.