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TIL that the Vatican´s bank is the only one in existence that allows ATM users to perform transactions in Latin.

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naG7 TIL In 2011, a month after the Fukushima disaster, the FDA stopped testing Pacific fish for radiation.
69LAW TIL that Winston Churchill, was directly responsible for creating Bengal famine of 1943 which ultimately killed about 3 Million Indian Bengalis.
5VAy9 TIL that in May 2023 the largest ocean-going wooden Sailing ship, the Götheborg, rescued a Sailing boat in distress
R5lk4 TIL that salmon sex can literally "move mountains". A WSU researcher linked salmon sex to geological change
ey0b TIL an Air Canada flight in 1983 ran out of fuel mid-flight, but the crew managed to glide the 767 to nearby airport. The plane turned out to have only been filled with half the amount of fuel it needed due to a miscalculation because Canada was in the process of converting to the metric system.