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TIL the Royal Canadian Mint has manufactured coins for over 70 countries

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j6y9v TIL the fastest ball ever bowled in cricket was 161.3km/h or 100.2mph by Shoaib Akhtar against England during the Cricket World Cup, 2003
WAjB TIL that pretty girls in large cities like New York are paid in drinks, dinners, and oftentimes vacations by people called “Promoters” to attend Clubs with them.
neEL7 TIL that in 1815, dentistry as we know it today was in its infancy - and the mouths of the rich were rotten. So they took teeth for their dentures from the bodies of tens of thousands of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Waterloo.
6901Y Today I learned that Nevada is the most centralized American state, with 73% of all Nevadans living in Clark County
kO9J4 TIL the last known win at chess by a human against a top performing computer under normal tournament conditions was in 2005