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TIL in American slang a "sawbuck" is ten dollars due to the shape of the Roman numeral X.

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neb7 TIL that the urinals in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport have the image of a fly etched into the basin. Men instinctively can’t resist a target so their bathrooms stay clean.
KY6YQ TIL about PERV (Porcine Endogenous Retrovirus), a virus embedded in the gene of pigs. It has been studied as a risk factor in pig-to-human transplants.
8aoQX TILabout an astronomer who in 1986been tryin to trace a 75 cent computer time discrepancy for 10 months found a German hacker selling defense secrets to the KGB!
QJpyd TIL that Piranha 2 director, James Cameron, was the first person to make a solo descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
y8g8 TIL that when Carl McCunn was lost in the Alaskan wilderness and a plane flew low by him, he put his fists up and started to celebrate being rescued, but the plane continued on. The fists were the signal to ‘ALL O.K.’.