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TIL Brazil suffered from Hyperinflation in the 1980s-1990s

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ZpmXR TIL that because the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures requires that because upper-case letters are only used for units named for people, Ken Woolner was inspired to create a scientist, Claude Émile Jean-Baptiste Litre, which would allow people to use L for litre and avoid mixing up l and 1
OJj1 TIL 35% of Saudi women in prison are there because no male relative will collect them
LkPQ9 TIL that the famous fossil Lucy was named after the Beatle’s song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which was playing in the palaeontologist’s camp when she was unearthed
awKbo TIL: Thomas Jefferson criticized the poetry of Phillis Wheatley saying it was "entirely derivative and imitative, completely devoid of originality" because she " lacks the intellect of the white race." After which she traveled to Europe and became the first published black poet.
Me8Yb TIL the early NSU Ro80 was so unreliable that some of these cars required engine rebuilds before 50k km/30k miles. Some owners even fitted the rough-running Ford V4 engine in order not to have to deal with the original rotary powertrain.