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Today I learned the longest running joke in the movie Airplane! is the jet has the sound of propeller engines.

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aEpA TIL that Tom Cruise vandalized the world’s tallest building in 2010. During the filming of Mission: Impossible 4, he climbed to the top of the Burj Khalifa (without safety equipment) and etched Katie Holmes’ name into the spire.
BGkk TIL Conan O'Brien and friends dressed like construction workers and started tore up a street. Conan called city police and reported his crime. Then he called the state police and reported that college students were dressed as police and harassing construction workers. Both forces arrive to arrest each other.
1077 TIL the French term for brass knuckles is “Poing Américan” which literally translates to “American Fist”
ADap7 TIL that the band Metallica played a show in Antartica so that they would become the first band to perform on all seven continents.
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