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TIL: Some cash machines in London have a Cockney language setting.

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76Ax TIL the Treaty of Peace and Friendship made between the US and Morocco in 1786 is the longest unbroken treaty relationship in U.S. history
Oj47 TIL there is an organisation called the Unrepresented United Nations (UUN) that represent Unrepresented Nations and Peoples, so “that they may express their position in the appropriate forums and obtain recognition, since they cannot in the United Nations.”
R5db6 TIL Thomas Jefferson was instrumental in bringing Macaroni And Cheese to the United States after encountering it in Paris. The dish was prepared by James Hemings, a classically trained French chef enslaved by Jefferson.
oeAL TIL that Andre Geim won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.
b6O0p TIL - In 1967, the Australian Prime Minister disappeared while swimming and his body was never found…