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TIL Dollar comes from the Dutch "Daalder" and was imported by the Spanish & the $ comes from the F of Florence, Italy, where the bills were printed. (Read the article, it is really interesting)

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OGpX TIL There is a medical disorder in infants called “Maple Syrup Urine Disease,” where the child’s urine smells of maple syrup or burnt sugar. And it can be fatal.“
woOBW TIL: The Colorado River is going to dry up in about two years. Reservoirs could drop so low by 2025 that water would no longer flow past Hoover Dam to Arizona, California and Mexico.
GY6LG TIL that on August 16, 1858, Queen Victoria sent a message of approximately 100 words to U.S. President James Buchanan. It took nearly seventeen hours to transmit by Morse code through about 2,500 miles of cable at a depth of often more than two miles.
AD6wd TIL in 1913 Bulgaria went to war against its own allies from the First Balkans War, facing off against a combined strength double its own. Unsurprisingly, it failed.
M7PVa TIL, that there is a "desert" in Japan with large sand dunes, a museum of sand sculptures and even camal rides for tourists