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

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778r TIL China & Nepal disagreed over the height of Mount Everest. Nepal wanted to include the height of the snow on the summit, and China only wanted to state the height of the rock. They argued for 5 years. It was a 4m difference.
mxw6O TIL the first knights of Korea were all-female. The name of their order was "Flower Girls". Curiously, they didn't change the name when they started allowing men, and thus the first male Knights were called "flower boys".
g8xD TIL that racism and homophobia are related to poor cognitive ability
JlWm TIL the Oh My God Particle, an ultra high energy particle (a billion times more energy than the LHC’s output) that travels so absurdly fast, time dilation dictates that it would have experienced 16 days of time since the beginning of the universe
Brj5K TIL of the town Metaline WA whose townfolks blocked and protected the Kubota, a Japanese-American family, in 1942 from resettlement by vouching for their loyalty.