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TIL of Rodriguez, a failed folk-singer from Detroit. While working hard labor all his life, he unknowingly had become more famous than Elvis & the Beatles in South Africa and only found out 30 years later. Oh, and the documentary about his life is nominated for an Oscar tonight.

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VJb4 TIL that when Australia stopped using the pound as it’s currency, some suggested names for the the new currency were the austral, the oz, the boomer, the roo, the kanga, the emu, the digger, the Quid, the dinkum and the Ming before the government ultimately settled on the Australian dollar.
kJ4ve TIL there was a plan to gild the Statue of Liberty in gold.
X98X TIL the UK still retains 18 Queen’s Messengers, who hand deliver secret documents to British embassies worldwide, travelling undercover in business class. The diplomatic package has its own “passport”, as though it’s a human being, and is exempt from being searched or x-rayed by airport security.
R7jw6 TIL "It ain't over 'til it's over" wasn't a phrase until Yogi Berra coined it in 1973
JrxB TIL pilots have to wait 6 hours after taking Viagra to fly because it can affect blue/green colour differentiation, interfering with their ability to interpret cockpit instruments and runway lights.