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TIL: The Netherlands sends Canada 10,000 tulips every year as a thank you for sheltering a Dutch princess in WW2

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KYBw9 TIL A love hotel is a type of short-stay hotel found around the world operated primarily for the purpose of allowing guests privacy for sex. The name originates from "Hotel Love" in Osaka.Although love hotels exist all over the world, the term is often used to refer to those located within Japan.
j6jnE TIL that the USS Pueblo - a US Navy ship captured by North Korea in January of 1968 is still listed as a commissioned vessel in the US Naval Fleet
ne7Eb TIL : Doctors are transplanting poop from healthy people into the stomachs of people with certain illnesses and it is healing them at a rate of 91-98%.
VBJgG TIL that in 2014 a teen actor portraying a zombie in a cornfield was accidently run over by a truck and killed but many of the patrons 'shooting' zombies from the truck thought it was just part of the ride
16vpX TIL that Kurt Waldheim was 'accidentally' elected UN Secretary-General in 1971, after the US, the UK, and China failed to coordinate their vetoes.