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TIL a Marriot hotel in Amsterdam has a hotel room with a 737 Cockpit inside of it. The hotel is not at the airport.

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696gJ TIL that Marlon Brando's final film appearance, recorded only a few weeks before his death, was as the voice of an old lady named Mrs. Sour in an animated film called Big Bug Man. The film was intended to come out in 2006, but was delayed until 2008 and then never released.
0waLL TIL: Turkish Garbage Collectors Curate Their Own Library using books they have collected that people have thrown away. The sanitation workers have already amassed a collection of more than 6,000 books.
5V8Kn TIL that Velociraptors were not just feathered, but that quill knobs have been found on their bones, an anatomical feature found today in all flying birds but absent in most flightless birds.
mxJDp TIL as of 2016 the City of New York is owed $16 Million in parking tickets unpaid by diplomats
yQbZX TIL of Clarence Elkins, who was wrongly imprisoned for the murder of his mother-in-law and assault of his 6-year-old niece. His wife worked hard to exonerate him and found a likely suspect who was in the same jail as him. Clarence collected a cigarette he’d used. His DNA matched.