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TIL that in in Zimbabwe, inflation had risen so high in 2008 that ATMs for one major bank gave a "data overflow error" and stopped customers' attempt to withdraw money because it had too many zeroes

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YplXG TIL It's estimated one in a billion bones gets fossilized. By that calculation the entire fossil legacy of the 320-odd million people alive in the US today will equate to approximately 60 bones – or a little over a quarter of a human skeleton.
0jQA TIL Japan is the vending machine capital of the world and that machines can dispense free supplies in the event of disasters
wMbP TIL that when Mart Laar became Prime-Minister of Estonia at age 33, the only economics book he had read was Milton Friedman’s “Free to Choose.” He said that it sounded good to him, “so we went ahead and did it.” Estonia now has the lowest debt-to-GDP ratio in the EU.
JYPp4 TIL that all of the sweaters that Mr. Rogers wore on his show were knitted by his mother. He liked wearing them because they made him think of his mother.