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TIL that the Beverly Hills Hotel & Hotel Bel-Air as well as a number of high end luxury hotels are owned by sultan Hassanal Bolkiah whose country will start stoning alleged gay people and adulterers to death in a week.

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Bpwr TIL that Mr Rogers testified before the Supreme Court defending the position that home recordings for personal use do not constitute copyright infringement
7rXkx TIL I learned that on December 7th 1941 Japan attacked many other places in the pacific, not just Pearl Harbor. Including: Malay, Hong Kong, Guam, Philippine islands, and a couple others.
kJAgm TIL that Jack Skellington is voiced by Prince Humperdinck
bkMa TIL that the children’s song group “the wiggles” were originally the “hardest working punk band in australia”.
Z8Goa TIL about Octomom, a deep sea octopus that tended her brood of eggs for nearly 4.5 years, likely withut ever eating, setting a record for the longest known gestation.