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TIL the founder of Bitcoin is someone called Satoshi Nakamoto. Nobody knows who he is, what his real name is or where he lives. He holds 1 million bitcoins, equivalent to $1.1 billion

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PYZZV TIL about Obstetrical Forceps, a tool used like a pair of pincers to literally pull out stuck babies during births.
GADaJ TIL heterochrony – the mechanism by which giraffes acquired their long necks and us our big brains
woonM TIL There are about 600 castles in Wales, which works out around 1 castle per 5200 people.
XEj9D TIL about Jocko Graves, a boy who touched the heart of George Washington and who died helping the American Revolution because he was too young to fight.
AxNo TIL that the Russians partied so hard once WWII ended, that the entire city of Moscow ran out of Vodka