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TIL that, to stop the theft of trees in public parks near Christmas time, some cities spray would-be Christmas trees with fox urine. It freezes and is odorless outdoors, but would be unbearable and irremovable if taken into someone’s home.

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W7wa4 TIL that the first Capsule hotel - a hotel developed with small rooms known as capsules- was opened in 1979 in Osaka, Japan.
PY47O TIL of the town of Plymouth on the island of Montserrat, which remains the capital of the island despite having no inhabitants for over two decades due to a volcanic eruption
pkQ4 TIL that when he was in hiding, Salman Rushdie immersed himself in Super Mario World, and joked that the best way to liberate Iran was to drop Nintendo consoles from the sky
gM9ey TIL 7/11 is named after their 'new' hours of 7am-11pm which were unprecedented in 1946, and they didn't experiment with 24-hour stores until 1963.
4X1vo TIL bee venom could cure HIV.