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TIL billionaire Howard Hughes bought the small Silver Slipper casino only to re-position the hotel’s trademark neon sign, which was visible from his bedroom and had been keeping him up at night.

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WBjX TIL That Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla created one of the world’s first wireless remote controls, unveiled at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1898
8r5a TIL that in 2007 Russian scientists found a cache of 32,000 year old fruit 38 meters(125 ft.) below the permafrost in Siberia that were still viable and when planted grew to be healthy, seed producing plants.
0wWLA TIL of the Mannanafnanefnd. A committee in Iceland that determines whether a name is suitable for integration into the Icelandic language. New names are considered based on compatibility with Icelandic tradition and the likelihood that it might cause the bearer embarrassment
O9R1 TIL: Four years after it was released, an Arizona DJ played UB40’s “Red Red Wine” as part of a feature on songs that should have been hits. Listeners started requesting it and within weeks it was the national #1 single
QJodk TIL there's a Japanese children's book called "Chirin no Suzu" (Chirin's Bell) about a lamb seeking revenge for a wolf killing his mother. The story is based on the author's (Takashi Yanase) experiences in World War 2. A film adaptation of the book was made in 1978 by Sanrio.