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TIL that the British Pound is the world’s oldest currency still in use at 1,200 years old. The pound has been an identity as a symbol of British sovereignty.

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VwWZ TIL the Word “Faggot” is posted on twitter about 50,000 times a day
xXK7 TIL on December 1, 1948, a dead man bearing no identification was found on an Australian beach. Well dressed in clothes with deliberately torn-out labels, in excellent physical condition, and having left behind a rare book containing a bizarre code, the man remains unidentified to this day.
vPmRr TIL that Tyrannosaurus tore the head off of Triceratops to get to the neck meat.
EK9d TIL that not one Justin Bieber single, song, or promotional single on which he was a lead singer or featured artist has ever reached a peak position of #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
neYL7 TIL Codex Seraphinianus is an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by Italian artist, architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini. It is written in an obscure, imaginary language, and has been compared to the still undeciphered Voynich manuscript.