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TIL The world's oldest hotel has been operating since 705 A.D. under the same family for 52 generations

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Y7PaZ TIL that there are only 10 people in the world who have achieved the 'Explorer's Grand Slam' - reaching the North and South Pole and climbing the highest mountain on each continent.
mV6x TIL Stephen king was hit by a van not far from his home in 1999. He suffered from a collapsed lung, a broken hip,a leg broken in nine places.Afterward he and his lawyer bought the van for $1,500 and when King healed, he wailed on it with a baseball bat before sending it to be crushed at a junkyard
JY1Vv TIL that accoridng to scientific predictions, the Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy within 4 billion years, creating a hybrid galaxy dubbed "Milkomeda".
X0Mwj TIL Mercury was still in use for hat making in the U.S. until the 1940's.
oB8pW TIL the Japanese usually leave out most of their history from the early 1900s to WW2 from their high school curriculum.