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TIL that one of the reasons why Wendy's restaurants got rid of their solariums (aka sunrooms) is because they were expensive to cool in the summer and heat in the winter. Another reason was due to changing architectural trends.

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BrVaL TIL in the 1600s Holland issued a bond that had no end date. 400 years later, the bond is now owned by Yale University, which still receives 11 euros a year in interest payments.
lg75 TIL there’s a museum in Massachusetts dedicated to art “too bad to be ignored”. A painting was stolen, and a reward was set at $6.50 (raised to $36.73)
b9BME TIL Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Quran using his blood as ink. The 605 page book contains roughly 27 liters of his blood and is kept in a mosque in Iraq behind 3 vault doors.
VBG7Q TIL that the BlueSky social media network has the same name as its current CEO, Lantian "Jay" Graber, whose first name means "blue sky" in Mandarin
VMpO4 TIL when forensic science was in its infancy, a woman - who developed the legal medicine department in Harvard - created doll houses depicting crime scenes. These early tools were used to teach crime scene analysis.