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TIL that Ecuador uses the U. S. Dollar as its currency.

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VEop TIL that Mandy Patinkin (aka Inigo Montoya) sustained only one injury on the set of The Princess Bride: a bruised rib, from laughing too hard at Billy Crystal.
bAN7 TIL during the September 11 attacks, Fox News began running a news ticker on the bottom of the screen to keep up with the flow of information that day. The ticker has remained in continuous use ever since.
woy0M TIL: That Marilyn Manson's 1994 debut single "Get Your Gunn" contains an audio sample of R. Budd Dwyer's televised suicide from 1987. The bridge of the song contains audio from the press conference, including the sound of the gunshot that killed him.
gME1W TIL that Soul Asylum’s "Runaway Train" helped find 25 missing children featured in the music video, but also led to a girl being returned to a "bad home situation" and a fireman discovering his daughter was killed by her mother and buried in the mother's backyard.
4v5o TIL The creator of Firefox works on the Google Chrome team