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TIL The Oldest Currencies Still Used Today

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d94B TIL that an elephant in India, while helping villagers lift logs, refused to lower a log into a certain hole because a dog was sleeping in it. Only after the dog was chased away would the elephant lower the log into the hole.
VepQ TIL the Kemper County energy facility - an experimental ‘clean coal’ power plant has been in construction since 2010, scheduled to be online in 2014 and is still uncompleted, after being 295% over original budget.
BeGK TIL: The military under Richard Nixon was ordered not to react to any orders from the president due to his depression
XEZEP TIL that NZ has already planted 149M+ trees as a part of it's 1-billiom tree planting programme by 2028. It's amazing how far they've come and done so with unique models.
XEle8 TIL: Some apartments in Hong Kong are so small they are called "coffin homes". They are so small that the UN called it an "insult to human dignity" with some being around 15 square feet".