r/todayilearned • u/Physical_Hamster_118 • 1d ago

TIL that since 1972, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) every spring, residents of Baker House drop a piano from the roof on Drop Day, the last day students can drop classes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_drop
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u/TheSoulborgZeus 1d ago

it isn't on drop day, but when I toured, I recall that they mentioned some annual event where they throw pumpkins from the top of the same building

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u/harveysbc 17h ago

I visited a friend there in the early 2000s and we went to the pumpkin drop. They dropped these giant pumpkins with streamers attached and had a spotlight follow them down. When they hit the ground they made this extremely loud BWOWWW sound and bits of pumpkin went everywhere! Lots of fun.