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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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gM65y TIL Stephen King, one of the greatest horror novelists of all time, has to sleep with the lights on.
ep5nL TIL the last time a British monarch died in battle was in 1513, when James IV of Scotland staged a disastrous invasion of England that ended in a rout at Flodden Field. Thomas Howard, the general who defeated him, subsequently added a Scottish lion with an arrow through its head to his coat of arms.
grvb8 TIL Aristotle's payment for teaching Alexander the Great was the reconstruction and repopulation of Aristotle's home village, which had been destroyed and enslaved by Alexander's father.
X0YbR TIL Rice is a fruit
R1wQ TIL Most of the big US Airlines have shifted major maintenance work on their aircraft to places like El Salvador, Mexico, and China, where few mechanics are FAA certified and inspections “have no teeth”