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TIL that David Zucker (writer of the film Airplane!) named his racehorse All Pink to mess with the commentators. Zucker specifically instructed the jockey riding All Pink to hug the inside of the track so the commentator would have to keep saying the phrase “It’s all pink on the inside!”.

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