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TIL we refer to money as ‘bucks’ because we used to trade with deerskin

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6XJm TIL the tomb of China’s first emperor has never been opened due to a river of poisonous mercury that flows inside it.
KEe4 TIL the musician Moby is the great-great-great-grandnephew of Herman Melville, the author of Moby Dick
dWDK TIL: That no participant of the U.S. Marshal’s witness protection program who have followed the established guidelines have been harmed since it’s inception in 1971.
yQjKa TIL lawmakers in South Carolina wanted to raise a monument to honor black Confederate troops from South Carolina without knowing that there weren't any black Confederate soldiers in South Carolina.
KOAyG TIL about Emperor Pedro II of Brazil who was an avid supporter of science education and a respected intellectual in his own right. Charles Darwin himself said that “The Emperor does so much for science, that every scientific man is bound to show him the utmost respect.”