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Today I learned there is a city in Romania named ‘23 August’ after the 1944 royal coup

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Z8joB TIL it can take up to 2,700 liters of water to produce the cotton needed to make a single t-shirt.
0doQj TIL that the $2 bill is still being printed and circulated today. The reason it feels rare is because so many people believe it’s rare and end up hoarding it, which keeps it out of circulation.
p5XZ TIL that in 2013, Google bought the GPS app “Waze” which resulted in each of the 100 employees receiving an average of $1.2 million.
pNyp TIL that since becoming a nation 238 years ago, the US has been in conflict or at war approximately 90% of the time.
5YO9p TIL Chimpanzees and some monkeys have entered the stone age.