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TIL Coin reeded edges were originally introduced to prevent coin clipping/ to stop shaving bits off

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RZO8 TIL that “nail houses” — properties, standing alone amid the ruins of other buildings, that belong to owners who have stood their ground and resisted demolition — are a thing in China
awPK9 TIL: There is a species of moth called the Bagworm moth. They build a cocoons out of sticks and small twigs. These cocoons can sometimes look like small log cabins. After metamorphosis the female of the species spend their whole lives, of a few weeks, in the little home they made.
oy8r TIL the 300 different NPCs in GTA San Andreas are voiced with as much as 60,000 possible lines, making it almost impossible for any one player to have “heard” the full game audio.
KRw4 TIL a US nuclear submarine that sank in deep water in 1968 is still resting at the bottom of the sea at a known location. Its nuclear reactor and nuclear weapons have never been recovered.
AgNn TIL a space time capsule has been proposed that would carry messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it would re-enter Earth’s atmosphere.