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TIL In 1994 Microsoft's Bill Gates, whose fortune is estimated at nearly $7 billion, bought out all the available rooms at the 250-room hotel to keep media from staying there and reportedly hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.

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x6Mgg TIL that since 2018 Morocco has a high-speed rail line connecting Tangier and Casablanca with a train that travels up to 320 km/h (199 mph).
MRra TIL in 1995 during a White House visit Russian president Boris Yeltsin was found drunk on Pennsylvania Avenue in his underwear trying to hail a cab to go get pizza
ZpwMo TIL that after releasing two albums that flopped, Neil Young was sued by his label, Geffen Records, for releasing music with so little commercial appeal that it was "unrepresentative" of himself. After the lawsuit, he released two more albums on the same label, leading to lowest sales in his career.
E1LEw TIL Jimmy Buffett is one of the world's richest musicians, with a net worth of $550 million. "Margaritaville Holdings, owned solely by Buffett and his business partner John Cohlan, now umbrellas everything from branded casinos, restaurants, and resorts across the world to[...] Landshark Lager"
Y7nVr TIL Nanjing once had a large Forbidden City Palace complex built by the first Ming Emperor Hongwu in the fourteenth century that is now in ruins. Plans were made to build a Presidential Palace on the former Ming Palace grounds when Nanjing became the Chinese Capital again in 1928