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TIL There is a hotel in Sweden made entirely out of ice. It is rebuilt every year.

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OGlDa TIL of the Harry Potter prequel manuscript which was auctioned in 2008 and stolen in 2017. It remains missing.
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ydrX TIL that the American Chestnut is not entirely extinct. A few dozen survived in Appalachia and are now the species is being revived via a blight resistant hybrid.
GM4G TIL that, in 1838, Missouri Governor Lilburn Boggs issued Missouri Executive Order 44, ordering all Mormons to leave the state or be killed.