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TIL the original “Airplane!” script had the jive dudes speaking lines like “Mo fo, shi’ man, wha’ fo”. Actors Al White and Norman Gibbs carefully created their own language by researching books on African-American dialects and early jazz culture.

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Q4wd TIL the south largely voted democrat before 1964. What happened in ‘64? Democratic President Johnson pushed and passed the Civil Rights Act.
neyvW TIL in 1986, a large male gorilla named Jambo stood between a five-year-old boy and the other gorillas in a protective gesture, after the boy fell into the gorilla exhibit and lost consciousness.
9YN8G TIL in 1955, attempting to stand out as a journalist, Dan Rather did heroin and documented his experience.
8Db4 TIL: On the map for the Animaniacs song “Yakko’s World” where he names every country, Tibet does not appear on the map. But when he names it and points to where it would be in China, it lights up (skip to 1:15 to see it)
611Q TIL in 1976, a struggling Princeton undergrad wrote his junior term paper on how to make an atomic bomb, using information he gathered from physics textbooks and declassified documents. He got an A in the class, but never got his paper back because it was seized by the US government.