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TIL that the Praetorian Guard auctioned off the throne of the Roman Empire to the highest bidder.

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78WmL TIL that Icehotel Jukkasjärvi, the world's first ice hotel, first opened in 1990 in Sweden. The entire hotel is made out of snow and ice blocks from the Torne River. The ice is used for Icebar designs and even the glasses. Interestingly, everything melts away and returns to the Torne River.
R75pw TIL that the eleven points of the maple leaf of the Canadian flag has no special significance: the number and arrangement of the points were chosen after wind tunnel tests and the chosen pattern is the least blurred under high winds.
awJlJ TIL that the Go-Go's are the only all-female band to both write their own songs and play their own instruments to top the Billboard album charts.
Men9b TIL 16th century English writers added silent letters to many words to better link them to Greek or Latin, even if no such link existed, such as the b in debt or s in island
neAAG TIL Deciduous trees withhold nutrients from their leaves during the fall causing the leaves to lose chlorophyll and change colors. The tree kills its own leaves to survive the winter and prepare for the spring.