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TIL that the Sovereign Military Order of Malta briefly had an air force after WWII

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j6R0R TIL Canadian 1-dollar and 2-dollar coins are called loonies and toonies.
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N8wN TIL that “rods” and “hogshead” are actual measurement units, and when Grandpa Simpson claims his car “gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that’s the way I like it”, he’s boasting about getting just shy of 0.002 MPG.
7avp TIL a woman was imprisoned for 15 days and deported for allowing her kindergarten class to name a teddy bear Muhammad
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