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TIL that during the 1400s, Africans trained killer bees to protect their villages and keep the slave traders away.

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J1Qgk TIL Dollar comes from the Dutch "Daalder" and was imported by the Spanish & the $ comes from the F of Florence, Italy, where the bills were printed. (Read the article, it is really interesting)
01KN TIL that Anne Hathaway wanted to be a nun when she was young. However, she lost respect for the Catholic church at age fifteen when “I realized my older brother was gay, and I couldn’t support a religion that didn’t support my brother.”
WewY TIL Khrushchev lunched in IBM’s cafeteria in 1959 and admired the concept of self-serve dining - which was so unknown in the Soviet Union - that he went home and instructed Soviet factories to build cafeterias which mimicked what he’d seen in San Jose
GYMKG TIL that the town of Basking Ridge, New Jersey, was built around a large oak tree in 1717. Legend has it that George Washington and his troops camped under it during the Revolutionary War. The tree was estimated to be 619 years old when it died in 2016.
ne6lr TIL French Guiana situated in South America and bordered by Brazil and Suriname is, in fact, an overseas territory of France and therefore part of the European Union and uses the Euro as it's currency.