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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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9Y0o7 TIL during WW2, a fake town was built to disguise the Boeing plant that was building B17 bombers.
0wOwj TIL the so-called "discovery of hunger" took place in April 1967 when the US Senate noticed people across America (mostly black) were dying of starvation and malnutrition as local officials blocked their access to food aid. This led to the creation of WIC and the reform of the Food Stamp Program
eDA5 TIL in 1974, an American television news reporter, commited suicide live on TV. She had written a script which included not only the shooting, but also a third person account to be read by whoever took over the broadcast after she had shot herself.
J17nB TIL that because giraffes are prey animals and have adapted to survive on less sleep, in uncomfortable positions, and to avoid becoming dinner, they often sleep two to a hammock.
Lrpm TIL In 1986, there were plans to put Big Bird on the space shuttle, to encourage kids to get interested in space. There wasn’t enough room for the puppet, and Caroll Spinney, who portrays the 8-foot-2 bird, was replaced by a teacher. It was for a seat on the ill-fated space shuttle Challenger.