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TIL that Holiday Inn's 1997 Super Bowl commercial "Bob Johnson" likened $1 billion in upgrades to the company's hotels to a transgender woman going to her high school reunion.

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9YjPp TIL of a "Kotatsu", A traditional japanese table with attached blanket. You can use it to relax, nap, eat/drink/hangout with friends and even has a built in heater underneath.
5Kk TIL that 27% of American adults didn’t read a book in 2006, and 43% didn’t read a book in 2002. “Those who said they never attend religious services read nearly twice as many as those who attend frequently.”
b189 TIL the only photos taken at the moment Robert Kennedy was shot were seized by the LAPD, ordered sealed for 20 years, and when finally set to be released were stolen from the car of the courier transporting them
MEL8 TIL that in 2002, a high school student ‘inspired by 9/11’ flew a stolen Cessna plane into the Bank of America building. He was the only casualty.
XNBQ TIL a pig named Lulu saved her owner’s life while the woman was having a heart attack. The pig heard the cries of pain, forced her way out of the yard, ran into the road and played ‘dead’ to stop the traffic. A driver stopped, the pig let him to the trailer, he heard women and called 911.