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TIL The Oldest Currencies Still Used Today

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9Y8WD TIL Doritos roughly translates to "little golden things" in Spanish
bGXN TIL Tesla could speak eight languages : Serbo-Croatian, Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, and even Latin.
lovPA TIL that Charles Bronson once took took a civilian hostage and demanded an inflatable doll, a helicopter and a cup of tea. He later released the hostage after being disgusted when he broke wind on front of him.
1a6rV TIL Ian McKellen was offered the role of Dumbledore after the death of Richard Harris. He turned it down because Harris once described McKellen as "technically brilliant, but passionless".
AD7A7 TIL A man named Jacob DeHaven lent $450,000 to the Continental Congress to rescue the troops at Valley Forge and the government never paid it back. So his descendants took the US to court to collect $141.6B in today's dollars. They were unsuccessful.