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TIL that Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Hotwire.com, Trivago, Travelocity, and Orbitz are all owned by the same company, Expedia Inc.

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4kR7R TIL although noble gas are generally inert, compounds of these gas have been observed in some cases such as XeF4, KrF2 and RnO3
yV8BM TIL that a tense meeting at the 1977 Golden Globe Ceremony between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone, began a twenty year rivalry between the two.
85W8 TIL that counterfit money printed by the british during the revolutionary war can be detected by its higher quality print than the legitimate bills
R5bN1 TIL the Splitfin Flashlight Fish have organs near their eyes that contain bioluminescent bacteria that emit light.
mX9x TIL when a paper couldn’t think of a name for an article about Chris Hadfield they rang the Air Force who said “Just call it ‘Canadian Wins Top Test Pilot’ or something to that effect.” A friend sent Chris a copy of the article, it read "Canadian Wins Top Test Pilot or Something to that Effect”