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TIL The Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu has only one hotel- the 16 room Vaiaku Langi Hotel near the airport on Funafuti

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4k6DN TIL President Gerald Ford once tried to eat a tamale without taking off the corn husk while campaigning
newkY TIL Marie Holmes won $188 million & vowed to give her church a big donation. After commuting to donate $1.5 million, the pastor sued her for $10 million for a verbal agreement to donate more. The pastor said Holmes gave him emotional stress, causing him to take medicine for anxiety and depression.
XwLQ TIL there is a butter flavoring that used to be used in microwavable popcorn that causes “popcorn lung,” a dangerous and potentially fatal lung disease. Major popcorn companies only just began disusing the chemical in 2007.
7moL TIL that when the University of Sheffield polled 250 children, all 250 reported that they disliked clowns as hospital decor
b9X7j TIL that Simón Bolívar, the great liberator of South America, was nicknamed 'iron butt' (culo de hierro) for his "endurance on horseback." Old 'iron butt' would go on to free Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, and Panamá from Spanish control in the 1800s.