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TIL WTF happened to the US economy in 1971 with the suspension of the Bretton Woods Gold standard for money.

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lo9gr TIL Angus McDonagh designed and printed his own fake postage stamps, with images of himself wearing an eye patch, a beret and a Father Christmas beard. He successfully used them to post over 100 letters.
4k676 TIL that when Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, journalist Giovanna Chirri was the first to break the news as she was the only one to understand Latin. She recalls: "He said it in Latin and I was panicking. I was short of breath, my legs were trembling, it was a reaction to shock."
D1RGD TIL Big Bang Theory character Leonard Hofstadter was named after Robert Hofstadter; an American physicist who jointly won a Nobel Prize in Physics.
wo8EY TIL Peter Cancro bought the first Jersey Mike's Sub Shop in 1971 when he was 17 years old. He got help from his football coach to get the loan. 52 years later he is still the CEO with over 2000 locations.
jPYv TIL Bacon affects the brain the same way as cocaine and heroin, overloading pleasure centers in the brain and requiring increasing amounts to be satisfied.