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TIL Airbnb got it's name because it used to be an air mattress company called Air Mattress B&B.

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rRn4x TIL Australian singer Allan Caswell sued Sony, claiming song 'Christmas in Dixie' by US band Alabama copied Caswell's 1979 theme song to women's prison TV soap opera 'Prisoner', but lost
mxXo TIL that one Japanese company, ykk or Waikeikei Gurūpu, manufactures 90% of all zippers in the world.
yMYw TIL that the most expensive fossil ever sold was Sue the T Rex, a 40-foot 80% complete specimen discovered in South Dakota in 1990. She was sold at auction to Chicago’s Field Museum for $7,600,000.00.
dD76Q Today I learned that Lucille Ball sent flowers to Carol Burnett on the latter's birthday every year. The last year Burnett received flowers from Ball was 1989. In that year, Burnett's birthday was also the day of Ball's death.
arXL TIL in 1937, a natural gas leak at the local school in New London, Texas caused a massive explosion that killed more than 295 students and teachers, the deadliest school disaster in US history. Adolf Hitler even sent his condolences via telegram.