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TIL that there is a Japanese family that has run the same hotel for nearly 1300 years.

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bAn7 TIL the word “bully” was first used in the 1530s to mean “sweetheart”. In the 1700s, pimps began to be called called bullies because they were “lovers” (as well as “abusers”) of their prostitutes. It is thought that the meaning of the word bully eventually changed to its current one as a result.
x6KPw TIL that the pronghorn is the fastest animal in the Americas and the second fastest in the world running at up to 95 km/h
Vm74 TIL when Neil Armstrong first walked on the moon, he carried with him a piece from the Wright brothers’ first airplane
kOJMd TIL during the exceptionally cold winter of 1795, a French Hussar regiment captured the Dutch fleet on the frozen Zuiderzee, a bay to the northwest of the Netherlands. The French seized 14 warships and 850 guns. This is one of the only times in recorded history where calvary has captured a fleet.
0wVWA TIL of LW Wright, a man who conned and lied his way into an official NASCAR Race in the spring of 1982. He immediately vanished after the race and hasn't been seen since because there are warrants for his arrest.