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TIL that the Vietnamese unit of currency is the 'Dong.'

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4XWwR TIL the Battle of Agincourt, when King Henry V led his army into France and came up head to head with a larger army. However, the commander of the French army really screwed up his advantage. He attacked the English army in a very muddy field, so the heavily-armored French became sitting ducks.
Wke9d TIL the White House press secretary has more DUI charges than White House press conferences
NXpDb TIL when Starbucks was developing Pumpkin Spice Latte's, their research and development team poured espresso shots on pumpkin pies, tasting different combos to determine the best ratio of cinnamon/nutmeg to coffee/steamed milk. It wasn't until 2015 that they started putting real pumpkin in the drink
yg8w TIL Arunachalam Muruganantham invented a simple method to produce low-cost sanitary pads in India. It took 4.5 years, his wife & mother left, & he was expelled from his village.“Luckily I’m not educated.If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop. You have no fear of the future”
ANWKn TIL The first ever "music video" was made in 1895 to test Thomas Edison's Kinetophone