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TIL that Oslo city council decided to forbid cars from entering the city by 2019

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LZPd TIL immediately after Pearl Harbor the US treasury issued specialized ‘over print’ bank notes for the Hawaiian market. In the case of an invasion all the seized cash would be rendered worthless.
4kOLN TIL the world record for “most children delivered at a single birth to survive” is 9 babies, known as nonuplets.
LkLnZ TIL a single mirror produced in Venice in the 15/16th century was worth more than a painting by Raphael, and was about equal to the cost of a naval ship. The creators of the mirrors were so prized the Venetian government would send assassins to kill them if they absconded without permission.
emeL TIL That Lockheed Martin is working on a hypersonic spy plane to replace the famous SR-71 Blackbird
VBkBG TIL The Nobel Prize committee has never rescinded the prize given to Egas Moniz for the invention of lobotomies