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TIL There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice and it is rebuilt every year

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XEwP6 TIL Khushwant Singh's experience in the 1947 Partition of India inspired him to write his novel "Train to Pakistan" in 1956. His comparisons of social and behaviour characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit
REm9 TIL the goofy stereotypical “uniform” of french people (striped shirt, cap and red scarf) is inspired by the uniforms of “Apaches” violent gangs from Paris in the early 20th century who garroted their victims to rob them.
jpKp TIL that Hockey rinks used to only have one shared penalty box, and players would often continue to fight in the penalty box.
8aJVV TIL A Cincinnati hospital paid Neil Armstrong's family $6 million in a wrongful-death settlement after the astronaut and Apollo moonwalker died due to complications following a cardiovascular procedure. His sons have asserted that medical malpractice led to his death
0wx6N TIL hoatzins are the only birds born with claws on their wings, a trait exhibited in dinosaurs like archaeopteryxes.