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TIL a person landed plane in New York streets twice to have a drink

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gM78A TIL the real meaning behind the "Married with Children" theme song. Frank Sinatra's Love and Marriage is actually about pre-marital sex. You can tell by the lyrics not featured on the show...As Pop was told by mother, you cant have one, you can't have none, you you cant have one without the other
8aMjP TIL There is an active volcano in Colorado, USA that last erupted around the same time as the pyramids were being built in Egypt.
D1k8r TIL about the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans. Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt were denied from participating. They then decided to start drinking. When they were reinstated, they drove drunk, broke the average speed record and won the race!
oROkR Til wampums were strings of beads used by native Americans as currency among other things. When colonists came, they adopted the practice but then found out an easier way to make them in bulk. This caused inflation and rendered the currency obsolete
4kDP5 TIL that the famous Sailing Stones of Death Valley (USA) actual move due to being on thin sheets of ice and being pushed by incredibly high winds