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TIL the Business Ryokan Asahi, a hotel in Japan, offers a room for only 92 cents a night. A requirement for booking this room is that you agree to be livestreamed during your stay.

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9w65p TIL that when the Arctic ground squirrel hibernates it's body temperature can reach -2.9 degrees. It can prevent it's blood from freezing by cleansing it's body of ice nucleators which enable the development of ice crystals. This is being studied to help preserve human organs for transplant.
x68rk TIL at over 100 years old, Iris Cummings is the sole surviving attendee of the 1936 Nazi-Germany Olympics
gVrW TIL that Wikipedia is “close to the level of accuracy in Encyclopedia Britannica”, with a similar rate of “serious errors”
dDYB8 TIL SpongeBob SquarePants was originally going to be called SpongeBoy Ahoy!. However, the name had to be changed because SpongeBoy was already trademarked. Creator Stephen Hillenburg chose SquarePants to emphasize the character's distinct shape and goofy personality.
DQLag TIL that the first major league in baseball formed in 1876 and was called the National League and included 8 teams.