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TIL that there are 30+ different stories from all over the world, that detail a World wide flood.

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aj5M TIL The Canadian $1,000 bill was retired on May 12, 2000, for being mostly used in criminal transactions, any $1,000 note deposited at a bank is destroyed, although the bills — nicknamed “pinkies” by gangsters because of the pinkish-purple ink — remain legal tender.
1aZV4 TIL that the lead singer of Toto, Joseph Williams, is the son of Star Wars/Jaws/Jurassic Park composer John Williams
pYNEp TIL the leaf sheep sea slug can perform photosynthesis by eating algae and absorbing the chloroplasts
VMOk4 TIL Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah has garnered acclaim as one of the greatest contemporary writers in the world. Farah was warned that the Somali government planned to arrest him, so he began a self-imposed exile that would last for 22 years
Bg01b TIL that some UPS trucks use the headlights from the Oldsmobile Alero