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TIL The Marriot, one of the largest hotel businesses, started as a root beer stand in 1927

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R7m07 TIL Guillotine earrings were popular among the rich during France’s reign of terror
R7Jo1 TIL The Maluku Islands were the world's sole source of nutmeg, cloves, and mace. The islands were occupied by the Portuguese, Dutch, French, English, and Dutch again. During a British occupation spice tree seedlings were stolen and taken to British colonies thus depreciating the islands' value.
69RA8 TIL There are only two known videos of Jimi Hendrix playing an acoustic guitar
VMrbm TIL about a village in India, in which people decided to live without street lights for over a month, not wanting to disturb the nest a Robin had built in the switch board. They will turn on the lights, once the birds leave the nest.
VMJ0Z TIL that in 1961 two nuclear bombs were dropped on North Carolina when the US bomber carrying them broke up in midair. Although neither detonated, one of the bombs was fully armed and it is unknown to this day why it failed. Each bomb had 250 times the destructive power of the one used at Hiroshima.