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TIL the Chinese yuan, Japanese yen and South Korean won are all synonyms (圓, "round")

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BKBk TIL in 1910 a group of students from Cambridge darkened their skin, donned turbans, and presented themselves to the British Royal Navy as ambassadors from Abyssinia. They conducted an inspection of the fleet, bestowed honors upon British officers, and spoke in a Latin/Greek gibberish.
JnO1 TIL that the difference between antlers and horns is that antlers are shed each year and are made of bone while horns are kept for life and are made of bone with a sheath that is very similar to human finger nails.
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