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

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d4Nd TIL When you receive a kidney transplant, they leave in the existing kidneys and just add the new one.
5YeAr TIL the Spanish Flu, which killed 5% of the world’s population, was especially lethal to healthy adults. This happened because their strong immune reactions ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune systems of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths among those groups.
M7ja7 TIL in the US, the top marginal tax rate reached its peak of 94% in 1944 for taxable incomes exceeding $200,000 (equivalent to approximately $2.5 million today). This rate remained above 70% until the 70s
60V8 TIL that a man tried to make his suicide look like murder by tying the gun to helium balloons
e0DRb TIL that fallout from nuclear testing has made it possible to carbon date people.