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TIL about the zero Euro note, used as a souvenir banknote with authorized printing by the European Central Bank. The Georgian ones features Stalin.

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aweVN TIL On average, golf balls contain between 300 and 500 dimples across their surface. Balls with more dimples have less drag and go further.
J184j TIL that Alonzo Clemons suffered brain damage as a child due to a fall, which left him permanently disabled but gave him a prodigious talent for sculpting: he just needs to see an animal for a few seconds to make a perfectly anatomically accurate sculpture of it with his bare hands.
d5mj TIL that there were two New York brothers who were severe hoarders through the 1940s. One of them took care of the disabled other. The healthy brother set up booby traps all around the house to keep outsiders away, which led to the accidental death of both of them.
5YJnB TIL about Witold Pilecki, a polish agent who volunteered for Auschwitz to feed information to the West about the Holocaust, one of the first to report it. He was executed by the Soviet Union for his Western connections
dDWBd TIL that in 2022, Belle Isle Park in Detroit had to temporary close their giant slide due to people going down the slide at excessive speeds. Before closing, video of children going up and down the bumps on the slide and slamming back down were captured and posted on social media that scared some.