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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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OWmY TIL Mr. Rogers always mentioned out loud that he was feeding his fish because a young blind viewer asked him to do so. She wanted to make sure the fish were OK.
w1AE TIL the United States developed a “nuclear bazooka” that could launch a nuclear warhead 2-4 km
J1gk TIL that Louis Pasteur, a French microbiologist from the 1800’s, kept a loaded gun in his laboratory while working on a vaccine for rabies; if he or one of his lab assistants got infected, they were to be shot in the head.
VBwpQ TIL in 1968-73 more than 173,000 squirrel monkeys were imported to the US, and largely delivered by mail to people ordering them from comic book advertisements.
l7aoN TIL that the Rick and Morty episode "A Rickle in Time" features "testicle monster" characters that were inspired by Steven King's "The Langoliers."