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TIL there's a Nissan Juke and a Toyota Camry on the reverse side of Cambodia's 500-Riel Note

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AmOg TIL Gates McFadden, who played Dr Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation, choreographed the ballroom dance scene in the movie Labyrinth
4XJ5g TIL that in 2018, because of rising prices and bad conditions for open access articles, all German universities collectively didn't renew their contracts with Elsevier, the biggest publisher for scientific papers
nepld TIL that 20 years before the first woman was democratically elected in 1980 as president of a country (namedly Iceland), stateswoman Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) was elected as prime minister, when she led her party to victory at the 1960 general election.
7rKX TIL that there’s a muffin shop in San Francisco called Double or Muffin. You buy a muffin and then flip a coin. Get heads and you get another muffin for free. Tails and you just keep the muffin you bought. Double, or muffin.
kJae7 TIL that James Doohan was 54 when he married 18-year-old Wende Braunberger, who he met when she was 17.