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TIL a man renovated a 3 story hotel specifically to kill people.

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KYOVR TIL that the author and screenplay writer Alistair MacLean, knocked out actor Richard Burton, during a drunken brawl. They worked together in the war movie "Where Eagles Dare".
mXpo TIL in 1978 the core structure of the 59 story Citigroup Center in New York City was quietly reinforced after it was determined the skyscraper would fall over in high winds
R7K9 TIL Monoco’s orchestra is bigger than their army
W7DE4 TIL that in the first The Terminator movie, Arnold Schwarzenegger only has 17 lines which breaks down to a mere 58 words. With the $75,000 that Schwarzenegger reportedly got paid for the movie, that works out to about $1293 per word.
4MO5 TIL - Europeans didn’t know Marco Polo’s “Cathay” was really China or that the city “Cambulac” was really Beijing, until 1598 when Jesuit priests in Beijing talked to Arab merchants there, who still called it Cambulac. Maps until the 17th century showed China and Cathay as 2 different empires.