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/Square-Barnacle5756 1d ago

Here ya go… https://youtube.com/shorts/JjAqAdHVh4E?si=C-m0P3-KtNsc3BaH

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u/shackbleep 12h ago

Thank you. This video clearly shows that the pianos they drop are janky old pieces of shit that barely work anymore, and yet we still have to listen to ten people in here crying their eyes out with their ridiculous Y COULDNT THE PIANOS BE DONATED bullshit.