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TIL that Scotland once used a currency called ‘The Unicorn’

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VX9Q TIL that by the time US Army Rangers have graduated from training school, they’re so well trained that members have reported waking up screaming from nightmares about Ranger school to be relieved that they are only in Vietnam.
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