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TIL A former skyscraper hotel in downtown Houston was left empty from 1988 until 2013 when it was converted into a Holiday Inn. The vacant building still had electricity, a library, and squattors who made themselves at home with leftover furnishings

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DQ06e TIL Pablo Escobar held Hector Lavoe & his band hostage because they refused to keep playing at his party. They were locked in a room that they somehow escaped from, and had to run into the jungle barefoot until they found a road and a taxi to take them back to their hotel.
BrxAd TIL Linkin Park were due to be called Lincoln Park ( a park in Los Angeles, CA near where they rehearsed), but the domain www.lincolnpark.com was too expensive. They shorted it to 'Linkin' so the band would appear right next to Limp Bizkit at record stores.
1alEP TIL it wasn't a single drug discovery that stopped people from dying of AIDS in the 1990s but the discovery that combining several drugs would each affect a different aspect of HIV and together force the virus into undetectable remission, called the "AIDS cocktail"
9YBlm TIL when Clodius managed to gain admittance to a religious ceremony for women only to seduce Caesar's wife Pompeia. Caesar divorced her saying that "my wife ought not even to be under suspicion." And gave no evidence against Clodius during his trial.
a84nN TIL Neapolitan ice cream's colors were originally green (pistachio), white (vanilla), and red/pink (cherry) to resemble the Italian flag.