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TIL The first Playboy Mansion became a student dormitory after the company donated it to the Art Institute of Chicago. The building was renamed Hefner Hall.

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0d1b1 TIL that England's High Court of Chivalry hasn't sat since 1954, and that was the first time since 1737. Before it heard the case in 1954, the Court had to rule whether or not it still existed.
oRnvA TIL In Laos it it illegal for foreign nationals and Lao citizens to have sexual relations unless the two are married.
8mPV TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about 4 crewman who are lost at sea and turned to eating the cabin boy named Richard Parker, 46 years later, an English Yacht sank and the remaining 4 survivors in a life boat turned to eating the Cabin Boy after he fell ill, also named Richard Parker
GYBjN TIL: Cars built after 2014 are mandated by law in the US to have an event data recorder - typically called a “black box” similar to those analyzed after airplane crashes
WGBL TIL after Ameila Earhart’s plane was presumed lost, all subsequent distress calls were treated as hoaxes. Recent research concluded however that half of the calls, many of which were received by amateur radio operators, were credible, indicating that she may have survived for weeks after the crash.