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TIL Hotels in the US always have ice, because the burgeoning Holiday Inn wanted to set themselves apart

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OoGVX TIL strangulation can be deadly even days or weeks after the event occurs and significant internal damage can have few outward signs or bruises.
Wk5XL TIL that crocodiles and alligators are more closely related to birds than they are to lizards or snakes.
nWDld TIL Portugal fought a 13-year Colonial War to keep its African colonies long after the rest of Europe had given up theirs. Eventually the military got sick of dying in a pointless war, overthrew the dictatorship and installed a democracy
6om TIL as of March 2012, the most expensive city in the United States for renters is San Francisco. NYC isn’t even in the top 10.
Q1O9 TIL In 1994, Oakville, WA experienced a rainstorm in which gelatinous blobs fell onto a farm. The blobs were examined and found to contain human white blood cells but they did not contain nuclei, which is something human white cells do have. Theories persist, but none have been proven correct.