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TIL The entire state of Wyoming only has 2 escalators

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dnbj TIL there is a hotel that sits right on the border of Switzerland and France. A set of stairs started in France and ended in Switzerland upstairs. The upper rooms were thus ideal as a hideout for French Resistance members during WWII as the Nazis weren’t allowed to cross into the Swiss side.
yyVv TIL Mark Twain said of Jane Austen “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
XENvQ TIL that the same person won the Republican and Democratic primaries for California governor in 1946
b9An4 TIL the HBO drama series 'Succession' hires wealth consultants to advise the writers and the crew how the very wealthy live.. the clothes they wear, how they get off of helicopters, etc.
p8KwZ TIL The Umbrella Academy comic was written by Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance