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TIL: Ecuador Uses the USD as Its Official Currency

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loMbK TIL sea urchins are called "sea urchins" because hedgehogs were called called "urchins" until about the 15th century. Therefore, sea urchins are ocean hedgehogs.
1bn4 TIL The French tried to counter attack Germany in 1939, but were repulsed by “The silent soldier”…“a definitive weapon of the war”. New German mines that would fire themselves out of the ground before going off, wounding not just the soldier, but everybody else around them, as well.
xag0 TIL that breasts don’t just bounce up and down, but in a figure-8 pattern
e6AJ TIL that Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt was April Fooled early in his career when his office was taken apart and rebuilt on a platform in the middle of a pond complete with a working phone.
rNo1y TIL in 1976, the Eagles became the first band to receive a Platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for their album Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975).