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TIL more than half of the 30 largest hotels are located in Las Vegas, USA

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dD418 TIL The terms Whig and Tory originated from partisan religious divide in Great Britain. Whigs comes from Scottish Presbyterians horse thieves, while Tory was an Irish term for a Roman Catholic outlaw. They formed due to King James II/VII, the last Catholic monarch in the UK.
rM5e TIL that a woman created a fake facebook profile of a teenage girl and sent a friend request to her husband, then used transcripts of their conversations to get him arrested. He was freed and all charges were dropped when he produced a notarized affidavit, proving he knew it was her all along.
WmPB TIL in 2004, Jon Stewart went on CNN’s TV show Crossfire and criticized hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala for the partisan and sensationalized nature of the show. The show was cancelled next year, with the President of CNN citing and agree with many of Stewart’s points.
wo0n1 TIL of Decorah Posten, an Iowa-based Norwegian-language newspaper that was widely read by Scandinavian immigrants to the United States from 1874 to 1972. Its founder, Brynild Anundsen, represented the state of Iowa at the coronation of Haakon VII of Norway and Queen Maud in 1906.
oR8ZK TIL before retiring to become an author, science fiction writer Gene Wolfe helped design the machine that makes Pringles potato chips