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TIL about Benjamin Bolger, a man with dyslexia who possesses 14 degrees. He's one of the most credentialed perpetual students in human history.

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J1Qgk TIL Dollar comes from the Dutch "Daalder" and was imported by the Spanish & the $ comes from the F of Florence, Italy, where the bills were printed. (Read the article, it is really interesting)
GAD1G TIL Lynyrd Skynyrd's final album featured the band engulfed in flames on the cover and was released just 3 days before their fatal plane accident that took lives of some of the members. The album was quickly pulled, and the cover was replaced but was later restored.
kn74 TIL that British actor Julian Glover has a role in the The Star Wars, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, James Bond, and Indiana Jones series…
LGmQ TIL Ed Smith created a fake student called George Burdell when Georgia Tech sent him two enrolment forms by mistake. He signed Burdell up for all his classes and did all his work twice with minor changes so teachers wouldn’t catch him. The school awarded Burdell a bachelor’s and a master’s degree.
RyRl TIL that Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world, surpassing Saudi Arabia