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

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xV9b0 TIL Carl Jung was an undercover operative (“Agent 488”) for the allies during World War 2. His commanding officer Allen W. Dulles said that “Nobody will probably ever know how much Prof Jung contributed to the allied cause during the war." Dulles later became the first director of the CIA.
e0EBE TIL of the improbable case of Phineas Gage, An American railroad worker who survived an accident where a metal bar went completely through his head
69968 TIL 'Jeopardy!' superchampion and eventual host Ken Jennings won so many games during his initial streak that he admitted to fabricating anecdotes for the show's interview portion just so that he would have something to chat about with Alex Trebek.
WkJEL TIL that the adult mayfly lives less than 24 hours. Its sole purpose is to find partners and mate before it dies. The adults of many mayfly species don't even have mouths and digestive systems, because they don't live long enough to need them.
lodKG TIL the last two fluent speakers of the ancient dying language Ayapaneco aren’t talking to each other. Manuel Segovia, 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, only live 500 metres apart in a small village in Tabasco but refuse to speak as they can’t stand each other’s company.