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TIL the business name "Holiday Inn" was originally suggested as a joke.

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9Yr1m TIL about neutral Moresnet, an formerly independent village-nation between Germany and Belgium that continued to exist until 1920. At it's height, it housed 3500 citizens and the largest zinc-mine of Europe. The flag colors came from a mining company and it's citizens were considered stateless
1aek4 TIL that in 1688 false reports of Irish soldiers burning and massacring English towns prompted a mass panic, with thousands of people arming themselves and preparing to resist non-existent groups of marauding Irishmen.
Pe7E TIL that there are no pokemon below level 2 found in the wild because the “Medium Slow” experience formula caused level one pokemon to give negative experience, making a pokemon level instantly to 100.
l601 TIL James Woods is recognised as one of the most intelligent people in the world and has an IQ of 180
awDZo TIL Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse he rode in "Lord of The Rings." The horse had a hard time adjusting to the lights and sounds on set and it took a while for them to get in sync. "We got through it together and became friends. I wanted to stay in touch with him," said Viggo.