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TIL that "Airplane" was judged "culturally, historically, or aesthetically" significant and added to the National Film Registry in 2010

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g084 TIL that there are “lone planets” that roam endlessly through space without ever going into orbit. They are actually predicted to be more common than stars.
4XKw TIL: the Sun accounts for about 99.86% of the total mass of the Solar System
XEQPE TIL about A Free Ride, the earliest extant American pornographic movie, from 1915
v1lLB TIL John Mercer Langston became the first African American lawyer in the United States when he passed the bar in 1854. He’s also the great-uncle of famed Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes.
LwdZ TIL Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, believes the earth is secretly controlled by giant inter-dimensional lizards who came to earth to harvest gold that strengthens their lizard nervous systems.