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TIL there’s a hotel in Japan staffed by robots. The check-in desk is an animatronic velociraptor.

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VBW6B TIL that before the Civil War there were 8,000 different kinds of money in circulation in the US - the same banknote had different value depending on location
njaY TIL that King Faisal of Saudi Arabia abolished slavery and freed 1,682 slaves…in 1962.
0AoR TIL scientists revived 400-year-old frozen mosses recovered from melting glaciers in Canadian Arctic
4Xyo TIL that there are planets without stars, that they could outnumber the stars in the galaxy, and could easily harbor bacterial life.
l7VvG TIL in 2018, Country Time Lemonade announced an initiative called 'Legal-Ade' which offered to cover fines of up to $300 for children in the U.S. who had been penalized for operating lemonade stands without a permit in 2017 or 2018.