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TIL a Denver motel owner secretly recorded hotel guests under the auspices of performing a quasi-scientific study on guests' sexual acts.

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6EARW TIL of the Ikh Khorig, or Great Taboo: an area of almost a hundred square miles in Mongolia believed to contain Genghis Khan's resting place. The area was patrolled by elite guards and their descendants for centuries, and was only opened to archaeologists in 1989.
G5lE TIL if you buy a Volvo through their Overseas Delivery Program, you will receive 2 free round-trip tickets to Sweden to test-drive your car (includes airport pickup/luxury hotel). Then you’ll have 2 weeks to explore Europe in the car (they pay insurance). Volvo then ships your car to you for free
a8w19 TIL in 2015 the US Forces wanted to update the 'loose lips, sink ships' warning from WW2, Warning against sharing information with others outside the forces. They had to tailor it for the Social Media generation, and came up with: 'loose tweets destroy fleets'.
EALw TIL After being beaten and arrested by police for being gay, Stonewall rioter Raymond Castro was placed in the back of a paddy wagon. The wagon was already filled with three members of the Mafia, who reassured him “don’t worry kid, you’re ok in our book.”
b9d5E TIL Tree DNA was used in US federal court to connect a log poacher to the stump of the tree he illegally cut down and that now volunteers are working on creating tree DNA databases for future prosecutions.