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TIL there is a hotel inside of the Toronto Blue Jays stadium

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6DXl TIL there’s a city in South Dakota called Gettysburg. Its slogan is “Where the Battle Wasn’t.”
d8b8B TIL that according to Greek mythology, the Anemone flower was created by the tears of Aphrodite mixing with the blood of her mortal lover Adonis, who had been fatally wounded by a wild boar. It is said that the flower represents Adonis' existence; beautiful, graceful and short lived.
J11xm TIL Koalas sleep 20 hours or more to slow down their metabolism rate and conserve their body energy
NXEnN TIL the "ampersand" character is intended to depict the two characters of the Latin word "et", meaning "and", that it was once considered the 27th letter of the alphabet, and that it's name comes from the phrase "and per se and".
yVl1X TIL during the two decades that the famous advertising campaign 'Got Milk?' ran, it reached an estimated 80% of all US consumers on any given day. By the end of the campaign, around 350 national TV and print ads had been used including 70 commercials in California alone.