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TIL that coins (originally made from precious metals) have ridges in order to prevent people from shaving down the edges to sell those shavings and use the devalued coins as their original value.

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yVJvV TIL Dominik Hašek, one of the best NHL goaltenders of all time, was drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in 1983. Because Hašek was from Czechoslovakia and behind the Iron Curtain, he did not know he was drafted by Chicago until several months later.
bGB4 TIL the Ancient Greeks had a rudimentary railway c.600B.C
b9m89 TIL that upon its initial release in 1976, Bohemian Rhapsody's peak Billboard position was #9; 16 years later, it reappeared at #2 after being featured in Wayne's World.
VBQA0 TIL Sonja Farsi and Annie Dookhan, two Massachusetts lab technicians were responsible for handing pver 70,000 cases and around 15,000 false convictions by tampering with and intentionally falsifying drug evidence
rRYgy TIL though Israel was one of the first country to recognize the newly independent country of Bangladesh on 1972, Bangladeshi government rejected the recognition