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TIL there is no federal statute that says a private business, person, or organization must accept currency or coins

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6EL1l TIL that one of the charges against Marie Antoinette included incestuous relations with her son Louis-Charles, who was forced to testify that his mother had molested him. After a two-day show trial, an all-male jury found the former queen guilty on all charges and unanimously condemned her to death.
9reX TIL: a russian farmer’s wife gave birth to 69 children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets… when she died her husband remarried and had another 18 kids.
dD8PB TIL that the 2014 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to the three men who invented the blue LED. Until their discovery in the 90s, white LED lights couldn't be produced.
75xr TIL The car that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated had the number plate 11 11 18. This assassination lead to the start of the First World War which concluded on 11/11/18.
b90Ea TIL that Chinese newspaper cited The Onion naming the North Korean leader as the Sexiest Man Alive without realizing it was a joke