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TIL that HMV stands for "His Masters Voice' and is named after a painting of the same name

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grZRD TIL that the largest hotel chain in the U.S. by number of locations is Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, with 6,083 locations across the country.
yQlbw TIL that the Treaty of Paris, the treaty that ended the American Revolutionary War, refers to the island of Phelipeaux as a landmark for the American-Canadian border. The island Phelipeaux has never existed.
P1J4J TIL about Sikh Nation - the largest blood donation campaign run by Canadian Sikhs to commemorate the tragic loss of thousands of lives in India’s anti-Sikh genocide in 1984. It has saved more than 160,000 lives and spread to 27 communities across the country since it began in 1999.
8e1RV TIL that the aluminium based Airstream was the only travel trailer builder in America to survive the Great Depression.
1a4gO TIL of Valerie Browning - a woman who with her husband Ishmael has been serving the people of Afar, Ethiopia (one of the hottest places on earth) since 1973. She grew up in Armidale, New South Wales. She has been providing medicine, food and education to the people living there.