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TIL the Euro is the official trading currency of Cuba, North Korea and Syria

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10Kr TIL US mothers in the year 2000 put in 30% more hours into childcare than in 1965, even though families today are far smaller, far more moms work, and far more dads help out with childcare. In total about 6x more time and effort is put into the average modern child than one in 1965.
Z89oo TIL the television show “Star Trek” aired 22 years before the first evidence of an exoplanet, in 1988, (planet outside our solar system) and 26 years before the first confirmed observation of exoplanet.
b9QPQ TIL when The Outhere Brothers, creators of the song "Fuk U in the Ass", released a greatest hits album, they named it "The Fucking Hits".
E55w TIL after a hijacked Ethiopian Air jet crashed in the ocean, an estimated 60-80 people who survived the initial water-crash ignored the captains pleas to not inflate the life vests inside the plane. They all drowned when rushing water pinned their inflated vests against the fuselage’s ceiling.
oBlor TIL of Naked Came the Stranger, a erotic romance novel written as a literary hoax by 24 different authors, each one taking a chapter. Some chapters had to be heavily edited because they were too well-written. Even after it was revealed to be a joke, it reached the NYTimes best-seller list.