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TIL that the Nazis forged British pounds at a total value of £134,610,810. The notes are considered to be among the most perfect counterfeits ever produced, being almost impossible to distinguish from the real currency.

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DAyv TIL Michael the gorilla was taught sign language by Koko, the first signing gorilla. He began signing “Squash meat gorilla. Mouth tooth. Cry sharp-noise loud. Bad think-trouble look-face. Cut/neck lip (girl) hole.” Researchers believed this was a description of the poaching death of his mother.
4Xmga TIL... The dumbo octopus looks like the Disney elephant and uses it's ear-like flaps to swim.
Yp54x TIL that to promote Spinal Tap’s 1992 album, Break Like The Wind, radio stations were sent a colander labelled as "Spinal Tap Official 1992 Calendar".
KYOJE TIL that there is a major, large-scale recycling program for used Taco Bell sauce packets.
m1vrE TIL the CIA funded the exhibition of modern art in Europe in the 1940s-60s in order to wage a cultural war on the Soviet Union. Via the Rockefeller Foundation and MOMA, the US government funded abstract expressionist exhibitions believing that they represented a counterpoint to Soviet realism style