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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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R5Ky1 TIL 32-bit devices won't be able to tell the time accurately by early 2038, 13 year from now.
6oBY TIL that the British Royal Navy (at substantial cost) established a fleet of ships known as the ‘West Africa Squadron’ which would patrol the west coast of Africa, capturing slave ships. This fleet is estimated to have captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 African slaves between 1808 & 1860.
p8QQG TIL Starfish can drop off their arms when they feel threatened. Some species can even regenerate themselves from a single arm, as long as there's a small portion of the central disk, and some also reproduce that way, simply splitting in half to become two individual starfish.
MeMmm TIL that the Star Spangled Banner borrowed its tune from “To Anacreon in Heaven”, a British drinking song hailing the praises of an Ancient Greek poet famous for loving wine and writing erotic poetry.
WkdN8 TIL that "thagomizer" is the unofficial name of the spike arrangement on the tails of stegasaurid dinosaurs in reference to a The Far Side cartoon. While unofficial, it is still used to describe the feature at the Smithsonian Institute, the Dinosaur Nat'l Monument, and in other literature.