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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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a9k9 TIL that Hugh Hefner doesn’t own the Playboy Mansion. Playboy owns the house and Hefner must pay an annual fee to cover rent and other expenses like food and parties. Including the room and board for Hefner’s many live in girlfriends.
4kapa TIL Rain can make some allergies worse. This can include allergies to certain pollens, mold, dust, and grass. When rain falls on these allergens, it can break them up into smaller bits. This leads to easier spreading and can result in worse allergies.
rN1wy TIL that the first American Artist to cover a Beatles song was Del Shannon with his 1963 cover of "From Me to You". Del Shannon's cover also became the first Lennon–McCartney composition to make the American charts when it entered the Billboard Hot 100 on June 29th, 1963
69dDm TIL about The Black Taj Mahal (Kala Taj), a black marble mausoleum that was planned to be built across the Yamuna River opposite the Taj Mahal in Agra, India. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan desired a mausoleum for himself similar to that of the one he had built in memory of his second wife, Mumtaz Mahal.
Pmmg TIL OK Go added 35 minutes of Damian Kulash’s sleeping girlfriend at the end of their album “Oh No” in order to prevent their label from using the extra space to add DRM software.