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TIL that the dollar symbol has its origin in Spain

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LkbgZ TIL more people climbed Mt Everest than the number of people who ran a mile in under 4 minutes
xVA95 TIL the US military's Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can project speech narrowly enough to be heard by a single person 300m away. American soldiers in Iraq used the device to speak directly to specific insurgents, claiming to be the voice of God and ordering their surrender
b9Yd9 TIL about Team Negative One. A group of Star Wars fans that scanned their own 35mm negatives and digitally restored the movie to it's pre-Special Edition glory.
X0pwX TIL the never materialized movie “The Incomparable Atuk” was called cursed as several actors associated with the film’s development died, including four comedians.
kOe97 TIL that Shakuntala Devi, also known as the human computer, gave the 23rd root of a 201 digit number in 50 seconds. The answer(546,372,891) was verified at the US Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.