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TIL Kobe Bryant’s middle name was “Bean”

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oRWjR 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.
a8OLM Today I learned that Disneyland used to have a "land" called Holidayland. It opened in 1957, but was so unsuccessful that it closed less than five years later. It has since been replaced by New Orleans Square, home of Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion.
ZpMKD TIL the Toraja people of Indonesia perform "Ma'nene", an annual ritual where the embalmed corpses of family members are removed from their tombs, groomed, dressed in new clothing, and treated as though they are still among the living. Torajans refer to the deceased as "sick", and only bury years on.
e0Q4E TIL of Sin Eaters. In parts of England, Scotland, and Wales up until the 19th century, when a person died the family would pay a man to eat a piece of bread off the deceased in order to absorb their sins, risking their souls for a few pence
QJvaa TIL at 17,207 acres (27 square miles) the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport is larger than Manhattan & is the 2nd largest airport by land area in the US complete with its own ZIP code.