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TIL that parts of Cameroon use beer bottle caps as currency - just like the videogame Fallout.

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ADrQa TIL There is a third Lion King film, which is a retelling of the first film entirely from the perspective of Timon and Pumba
QNP9p TIL about Seven Magic Mountains, a large-scale desert artwork in Nevada. Created by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, it consists of seven fluorescently-painted totems of large, car-size stones stacked 32 feet (9.8 m) high.
b9Yo0 TIL that after World War II, Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie was recruited by the CIA as an anti-communist counter-intelligence offer in France; upon being discovered by French authorities, the CIA helped Barbie escape to Bolivia.
JYrev TIL that Woodrow Wilson's wife, Edith, was de facto president of the USA for a year and five months, making her the first de facto female US president
Xx1R TIL the ancient Egyptians believed the ebb and flow of the Nile was caused by the god Atum masturbating to ejaculation. As such, Pharoahs were sometimes required to ceremonially masturbate into the Nile.