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TIL Teddy Roosevelt tried to remove “In God we trust” on newly minted coins

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wor6P TIL that most jokes about Germany are just about Bavaria. That is because the american occupation zone wa in bavaria and they mostly witnessed their culture and assumed that all of Germany is like Bavaria.
0dr8j TIL people are still learning Manchu language (used by the Chinese Qing empire) to study ancient Qing texts in Taiwan (but Manchus now speak Mandarin Chinese, and FYI the Chinese most people in the world now learn is a Manchu accent Chinese)
Egvkp TiL the critically endangered Kakapo bird has a strong, pleasant, musty odor which allows predators to easily locate it
1ay7 TIL birds are the reason we don’t have giant spiders and insects. Thanks birds.
GA1R7 TIL That character actor William Smith, whose roles included the Russian Spetsnaz colonel in Red Dawn, nearly had a different career path. While in the Air Force Smith attained several top secret clearances and was considered for a role in the intelligence community before he decided on acting.