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TIL: A resort in Alaska built a hotel made entirely of ice. It was shut down due to lack of smoke detectors & fire extinguishers.

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5Pd8 TIL ‘The Guinness Book of World Records’ holds the world record for the best-selling copyrighted book of all time
KON0E TIL Clitoridectomies (surgical removal of the clitoris) were performed in the United States into the 1960s to treat, among other things, "lesbianism."
rR4Xy TIL It can take a photon 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to earth.
RW49 TIL the oldest building in the world is located in France and dates to 4800 BC.
oMmK TIL George R. R. Martin, writer of ASOIAF (Game of Thrones) refered to Breaking Bad as “Amazing” and noted that “Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros”, then said it has influenced him to make an even worse character in future books to “fix this”.