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TIL a Dutch designer recreated the bridges found on the Euro banknotes which are supposed to be fictional to not favour a country

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XEBpR TIL Usain Bolt suffers from scoliosis and has one leg slightly shorter than the other, as a result of that.
4QPg TIL the longest one-syllable word in the English language is screeched (9 letters)
e0456 TIL That in 1992, A North Dakotan teen, John Thompson, was home alone when he had both of his arms chopped off by a tractor in a freak farming accident. However, he still managed to get up, go inside, and dial for help via holding a pencil in his mouth. He survived.
MenLB TIL that if February, Germany charged a 95 year old woman with 10,000 counts of aiding and abetting murder because she was a stenographer for a SS officer at a concentration camp when she was 17. She lives in a nursing home, but if the case goes to trial, she will be tried in juvenile court.
9nbm TIL The Horseshoe Crab, which has been around for 450 million years, bleeds blue blood because it has Hemocyanin, which has copper, instead of hemoglobin as a transport protein.