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TIL that when the Washington monument was built the capstone was made out aluminum because it was considered a precious metal at the time.

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eJD TIL A robber who broke into hair salon was beaten by its black-belt owner and kept as a sex slave for three days… fed only Viagra
nrdB TIL A budgie named Puck is listed in the Guinness World Book of Records as “The bird with the largest vocabulary in the world ” with a vocabulary of 1728 words. Also he wouldn’t just mimic, he would often create his own phrases and sentences.
X4dj TIL in 1999 Martin Luther King Jr’s family won a wrongful death lawsuit, the jury found that the US Government had some doing in his assassination. The family only asked for $100 in restitution to prove the suit was not for financial gain.
W7x78 TIL the British aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has a pub onboard that serves beer whilst at sea
VlDk TIL that 10 Syrian Pound coins are so similar to Norway’s 20 krone coins in weight that vending machines cannot tell the difference. Posten Norge had to close many of their coin-to-cash machines because of this. 20 krone is worth about 45 times more than 10 SP.