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Today I learned that the Tiki Room at Disneyland was originally intended to be a restaurant, and was also the first fully air-conditioned building at Disneyland.

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4kRK6 TIL during five periods since 1990, Delaware has been the only U.S. state without any scheduled commercial airline flights. The periods were 1993 through 1998, 2000 to 2006, April 2008 to June 30, 2013, April 2015 and February 2021, and most recently from June 2022 to January 2023.
l7Boa TIL that the song “I Just Had Sex” by The Lonely Island is played “unironically” in public in countries such as Vietnam and Thailand; bandmate Akiva Schaffer noting “The nuance…would be lost if English wasn’t your first language”
Me4kV TIL that the domestic cavy ("guinea pig") doesn't occur in nature, although other species of cavy do
VMam8 TIL that in 2009, Trevor Noah’s mother Patricia was shot by his stepfather Ngisaveni after she married another man. When confronting him over the phone about the incident, Trevor moved to the United States after Ngisaveni threatened to kill him.
5YNEn TIL that until 2017, the toilets on UK trains flushed onto the tracks below.