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TIL Monaco is the only place in Europe where credit card points are not redeemable nor can you accumulate hotel points

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6e4Z TIL that Arnold Schwarzenegger calls RED SONJA his worst film, yet he claims that it’s an excellent disciplinary tool for his children: “I tell them, if they get on my bad side, they’ll be forced to watch Red Sonja ten times in a row. Consequently, none of my kids has ever given me much trouble.”
7GLp TIL in 1945 a computer at Harvard malfunctioned and Grace Hopper, who was working on the computer, investigated, found a moth in one of the circuits and removed it. Ever since, when something goes wrong with a computer, it is said to have a bug in it.
kwwW TIL U.S. Presidents and science Nobel Laureates were found to be overwhelmingly first-borns, as were 21 of the first 23 NASA astronauts
epeX6 TIL that "Gangster Spongebob" is actually an extremely popular rapper in Germany
MZk7 TIL Kindergarten (literally “children’s garden”) while both a German word and a German invention widely adopted around the world is, ironically, not usually part of the German state-supported school system.