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TIL that some countries imposed a Beard Tax and a token was required to be carried in public to show that it had been paid.

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wLEn6 TIL of Yap, an island that uses massive stones for currency. It is said that one of these stones which had sunk to the bottom of the ocean while being transported years ago continues to be used as real currency today despite not having been seen since.
dD9gK TIL pizza rolls were created in the 1960s by a cook working for a Chinese food company searching for new uses for their egg roll machine. She tested several sandwich fillings, but pizza flavors tested best, causing her to say, "Pizza rolls are nothing but egg rolls with pizza crust and filling."
dDJP9 TIL that the first nuclear bomb test done by the United States Army, called the Trinity test in 1945, was so powerful that it melted desert sand into a unique green glass now called trinitite.
9wwoM TIL that the world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years
00g5 TIL that scientists have created kittens that glow in the dark to help fight AIDS