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TIL the oldest and second oldest hotel in operation in the world were built in year 705 and 718 with in Japan

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yyVv TIL Mark Twain said of Jane Austen “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
dM0Q TIL that people suffering from Capras syndrome hold a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, or other close family member has been replaced by an identical-looking impostor.
loAYA TIL about singer and pioneer sound recording artist George W. Johnson, born in 1846, who sold more than 25.000 wax cylinders. Since every recording was a "master" back then, he would record the same song over and over with several recording devices pointed at him, sometimes fifty or more times a day
Wk8oN TIL of Gnosticism, a early form of Christianity that viewed Yahweh as a evil, lesser god who created the material universe (which was purposely flawed) . They believed Jesus saved them from Yahweh to meet the one, true God who was shrouded in mystery. This was condemned as heresy by the early church
6EyZW TIL that some beaches in Hawaii are white due to fish poop.