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TIL certain pennies from 1943 are worth over $70,000.00!

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jM8a Today I learned that the monks from Monty Python’s The Holy Grail are chanting “Pie Iesu Domine, dona eis requim,” which in English means “Holy Jesus, Lord, grant them rest.” It’s from “Dies Irae” (“Judgement Day”), a 13th century Latin hymn that has been set to music by dozens of famous composers.
j61Zj TIL that Kanepi, a small town in Estonia, has a cannabis leaf as its flag’s symbol. The town council let community members vote for the new flag, including the pot leaf symbol as an option. 12,000 of the 15,000 votes went to the pot leaf despite Kanepi being a town of fewer than 5,000.
ADRbn TIL about Grace Hopper (1906-1992). She was rejected by the Navy during WWII due to her age, her weight-to-height ratio and utility as a mathematics professor. Instead she became a programmer of the Harvard Mark I computer, and later popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages.
NX8g1 TIL: That in 2012, a Dutch World War II memorial was revealed on which the names of Jewish, Allied and German military deaths were written alongside each other in Comic Sans. The names were eventually scraped off following complaints, only for the rewritten message to also be written in Comic Sans.
aK4L TIL After Nipplegate, Janet Jackson was blacklisted from Viacom’s properties, including VH1/MTV/CBS/Clear Channel Radio stations, uninvited from the Grammys, lost acting gigs, and had a statue of Mickey wearing her Rhythm Nation outfit taken down at Disney World