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TIL in 1966 aviation legend Howard Hughes overstayed his penthouse suite reservation at the Desert Inn in Las Vegas and upon management asking him to vacate, he purchased the entire hotel and continued living/working in the suite for 4 years while establishing himself as a real estate tycoon

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n5VW TIL America sends Cuba a check every year for the Guantanamo Naval Base lease. The checks are not adjusted for inflation and are made out to the Treasurer General of the Republic, which no longer exists. Fidel Castro only ever cashed one, and stuffed the rest into a desk drawer.
d7vr TIL a 2015 literature review by Wayne Hall showed Cannabis use doubled the risk of car accidents, doubled the risk of cognitive impairment and psychosis during adolescence, and had a dependence rate of 1 in 10
XaK8 TIL that learned helplessness means that if, over the course of your life, you have experienced crushing defeat or pummeling abuse or loss of control, you learn over time there is no escape, and if escape is offered, you will not act – you become a nihilist who trusts futility above optimism.
PQbO TIL that the word “Jay” used to mean stupid, and was eventually applied to country folk, who were seen as unworldly. When these country folk, or Jays, came to the city, they didn’t understand traffic signals and crosswalks and crossed wherever and whenever they could. Thus, they were “jaywalking.”
vBe7 TIL: Freddie Mercury and Micheal Jackson were supposed to record three songs. Freddie was all good to go till Jackson decided to bring his pet Llama into the studio which pissed off everyone and those songs were never recorded.