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TIL Canadian money is different from American money but they both use dollars

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R7498 TIL the oldest living Alligator, "Muja" in the Belgrade Zoo, not only survived WW2 (where the Belgrade zoo was almost totally destroyed) but also the 1999 NATO bombings during the war in Serbia, 54 years later. He is estimated to be at least 80 years old. But there are no records of his DOB.
M7gvb TIL The bricks of the great wall of China were held together by a mortar made with of sticky rice flour and slaked lime for the Ming Dynasty section of the wall. It had more strength and water resistance than lime mortar.
w5KY TIL the movie “Blazing Saddles” was the first film from a major studio to have a fart joke.
byja TIL when the face of Italian fashion model Fabio, which has graced the cover of hundreds of romance novels, got struck by a goose on a roller coaster, he refused to sue, saying that he was not interested in profiting from the accident, but only wanted the park to install proper safety measures.
wL0nJ TIL during the American Revolutionary War the British offered freedom to any slave who fought for them under the badge 'Liberty to Slaves'. Despite the British defeat the promise was kept.