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TIL Andy Dalton and his wife rent out a hotel every year to let parents of children with disabilities drop off their kids for a much needed paid date night.

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GYkXG TIL the very first US episode of Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares featured a restaurant owned by an actual mobster connected to the Bonanno crime family
x6485 TIL that in 1996 a man named Blair Adams withdrew most of his money and fled Canada after allegedly telling friends someone was trying to kill him. He was found murdered six days later, in a parking lot 2150 miles away. His murder remains unsolved.
rXZd TIL If you were on the moon during a total lunar eclipse, you would simultaneously see every sunset and sunrise on the Earth as a red ring around the globe.
O1Z4 TIL Amsterdam pays alcoholics in beer. 2 cans at the start of the day, 2 at lunch, and 1 or 2 at the end. They also get half a packet of rolling tobacco, lunch, & and €10. There is a long waiting list to work for this program. Canada inspired this program with their Help the Heroin addicts programs.
X05ND TIL that in 1965 in Turkey, a bus hit a truck that was loaded with nitric acid that stopped in the middle of the road due to a shaft issue from behind. When passengers get off the bus, their feet burned and thinking there was water in the nearest pit, they jumped into nitric acid pit. 25 died.