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

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wyJY TIL there is a Family Guy episode which is so controversial FOX will not broadcast it in America.
W7XVX TIL that the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth was 1 part of a wider conspiracy to also assassinate the Vice President and Secretary of State the same night in order to create chaos in the government after the Civil War. Only Booth was successful however.
QX6E TIL Castration prevents male pattern baldness if it is done before hair is lost
0wW7y TIL about The Schreber Case: a paranoid schizophrenic man whose diary served as Freud's primary source to understand the condition. Schreber believed he was receiving cosmic rays through his anal glands by God in order to transform him into a woman so that he could herald and breed a new race.
vnxB TIL that Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys wrote “California Girls” during his first experience with LSD. He sat in front of a piano and played what are now the first four notes of the song over and over again for about an hour, until the rest of the song suddenly came to him.