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TIL The Oldest Currencies Still Used Today

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lV77 TIL after Sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded, his widow kept the embalmed head by her side for 22 years, and would ask guests if they would like to meet him
X0nl6 TIL about Adnan Khashoggi. A Saudi businessman, arms dealer implicated in the Iran–Contra affair, uncle to Dodi Fayed (killed in a car accident with Diana, Princess of Wales), and uncle to Jamal Khashoggi (assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul).
Zlap TIL Jodie Foster is so fluent in French, she dubs her own movies
R7gZw TIL that Mythbusters were going to do an episode which highlighted the immense security flaws in most credit cards, but Discovery was threatened by, and eventually gave into immense legal pressure from the major credit card companies.
XwgX TIL an MIT geek in the 70’s convinced a record label he had a band recording an album in LA. In reality he mixed the entire thing himself from old homemade demo tapes in a run-down basement in Boston. It only cost a few thousand dollars to create, and sold more than 20 million copies worldwide