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TIL Euro banknotes have architectural styles depicted on them, and they start with the earliest style on the lowest denomination and go through to the latest on the largest denomination

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X0o5r TIL that in 2022 scientists researching life’s origins observed that rocks known as basaltic glasses (usually found where lava is quenched or where meteorite impacts cool) were able to spontaneously link individual RNA letters - nucleoside triphosphates, into RNA strands up to 300 letters long.
nJx9 TIL that Peter the Great made moustaches a requirement for every soldier in the Russian Army.
m8EP TIL Some Nigerian prince scammers use bad English and a dumb premise, not because they’re actually clueless, but because they want only the biggest suckers to respond, allowing them to dedicate their time and efforts to people who might actually pay up.
YpWXv TIL that Saturn could float in water.
xVvp1 TIL: Sexagesimal (base 60) is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.