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040y TIL the most valuable legal tender coin in the world is a $1 million coin made in Australia. But being that it weighs 1,000kg and is 99.99% pure gold, it is worth almost $45 million
N7P96 TIL the official name of Mexico is "The United States of Mexico".
jNlVM TIL Guy Fawkes, a man famous for his part in the gunpowder plot to assassinate King James I of England, was ranked 30th in a BBC list of the 100 greatest Britons of all time. King James I did not make the list.
GYZn7 TIL a researcher spent her career studying what differentiates successful from unsuccessful people. She found grit, which she defines as "passion and perseverance for long-term goals", to be the main determinant of success, at least as good as IQ or socio-economic status at predicting life outcomes.
gMaNL TIL Einstein named Spinoza as the thinker most influential on his world view. When asked by a Rabbi if he believed in God, he replied "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings."