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TIL Most upmarket hotels now offer a pillow menu. You can choose from more common ones like feather or goose down or you can try some unique pillows such as anti-aging and lullaby.

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ne057 TIL That In The Republic Of Ireland, It’s Tradition For Pub Owners To Also Work As Undertakers.
Mebj8 TIL that Ofcom (the regulator for TV, radio etc in the UK) keeps a list of swearwords ranked into categories of offensiveness. It include words like minger (mild), bollocks (medium), beef curtains (strong), and c*nt (strongest).
Vl4p TIL that Brazil tops the list of countries which export guns to the US. In 2010, the US imported more than half a million handguns from Brazil.
YpDLG TIL that the Powerball drawing on March 30, 2005, produced 110 2nd-prize winners. The total payout was $19.4 million, 89 of them receiving $100,000 each, while the other 21 received $500,000 each. All 110 winners had played numbers from fortune cookies made by Wonton Food Inc
rvnx TIL vintners sold wine bricks during the prohibition with the explicit warning not to leave the juice from them in a jug in the cool cupboard for 21 days, or it would turn into wine.