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TIL there are no known records from the American Treasury Department to indicate why Andrew Jackson was chosen to replace Grover Cleveland on the $20 bill in 1928. Jackson was notoriously opposed to paper money.

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WwGA TIL that time runs approximately 0.0000000014 percent slower on the Iss than on earth - after 6 months in the ISS, an astronaut will have aged 0.007 less than someone who had spent 6 months on earth, all due to time dilation.
JrB1 TIL In 2000, amid rampant rumors that Pokemon was the work of the devil, the Pope gave his blessing to Pokemon calling it “full of inventive imagination” and that it did not have “any harmful moral side effects.”
nevPb TIL That cats love the smell of crushed ants
g59W TIL Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, taught French at Eton to an Eric Blair, who would later go on to use the pen name George Orwell.
oR4k8 TIL: OpenAl has open-sourced Whisper, an AI transcription tool that's able to recognize accents, background noise and technical language and trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web.