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TIL you can stay in a hotel in Japan for $1 a night if you agree your entire stay to be livestreamed 24/7

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69NNJ TIL of the 1975 Yellow Sam betting coup in Ireland, where a horse was trained for an obscure race, was given starting odds of 20-1, the trainer then had a friend block the only phonebox near the racecourse pretending to talk to a dying aunt, so the bookmakers couldn't communicate. He made €1.7(afi)
kJGMW TIL Orcas wear dead salmon as hats.
401J TIL Oranges are actually a hybrid fruit - It is a cross between a pomelo (75%) and a mandarin (25%)
p8Kj4 TIL that in July of this year a female National Guard soldier graduated from Special Forces training and received her Green Beret, the first in history to do so. The soldier’s name and other biographical information have been withheld by the Army for personal and operational security reasons.
657Y TIL when Stephen Hawking gave a lecture in Japan he was asked not to mention the possible re-collapse of the universe, billions of years into the future, for fears of the effects on the stock exchange