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TIL economists estimate that only 8 percent of the world's currency exists as physical cash

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1a5Nr TIL the reason we know what cyanide tastes like is because an Indian man, MP Prasad who committed suicide left a hastily scrawled note describing the taste. "Doctors, potassium cyanide. I have tasted it. It burns the tongue and tastes acrid," he wrote, solving a long unanswered question.
MY0K TIL Vietnamese people would adopt the names of kings to show their loyalty. The Nguyen Dynasty was the last Vietnamese Dynasty, explaining why Nguyen is a popular last name.
wo6ZW TIL that President Nixon had an "Enemies List" targeting over 200 political opponents, activists, journalists, and celebrities, including Paul Newman, Jane Fonda, and John Lennon, with plans to use IRS audits and FBI surveillance against them. The list was exposed during the Watergate scandal.
nNmY TIL That “Sushi” is not actually Japanese. It originated in South East Asia, and caught on in China, then finally in Japan.
kObbE TIL of Kenneth Parks. In 1987 he drove 20 kms from his house to his In Laws' in Scarborough Toronto. He stabbed both of them killing his mother & badly injuring his father in law. He was acquitted of the murder charges because he was a Sleepwalker.