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TIL only 8% of the world's currency exists in physical form. The rest exists only on a computer.

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M4Q0 TIL that The Wolf of Wall Street uses the word “fuck”, or its variations, 569 times. Given a running time of 180 minutes, this is 3.16 fucks per minute.
m4ZY TIL that Edward Teach “Blackbeard” plundered over 40 ships, while Bartholomew Roberts “Black Bart” plundered over 400 ships.
pNk8 TIL that all teas (e.g. black, green, white) come from the same plant camellia sinensis and differ only in the processing methods
d8PyZ TIL about the divorce trial of Leonard and Alice Rhinelander in 1924. The wealthy Leonard Rhinelander was ordered by his father to annul his marriage, so he claimed Alice lied about being white. Alice was ordered to show the jury her naked body. The jury decided she didn't lie about her mixed race.
lo4bA TIL of Henry Lucas, who in 1663 founded a professorship of mathematics at Cambridge University. The "Lucasian Professor of Mathematics" has become hugely prestigious, with holders including Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.