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TIL that 10 Syrian Pound coins are so similar to Norway’s 20 krone coins in weight that vending machines cannot tell the difference. Posten Norge had to close many of their coin-to-cash machines because of this. 20 krone is worth about 45 times more than 10 SP.

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J1dvB TIL About Kriegsnagelung or war nails. A fund raising system in WW1 where you paid to drive a nail into a statue. There were hundreds of these and I had never heard of them. Found one in a castle I visited this weekend.
WOj4 TIL that when the Apollo 11 astronauts returned from first walking on the moon, in accordance with the recently passed Extra-Terrestrial Exposure Law, the astronauts were placed in quarantine for fear that the Moon might contain undiscovered pathogens.
LeDV TIL: The inability to pronounce the letter “R” is called Rhotacism, thus making it impossible for the sufferers to pronounce their own affliction.
woKoW TIL that Bobby Leach, the second ever man to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel, died a few years later after slipping on an orange peel and getting a wound on his leg that would soon become Gangrenous. Although the leg was soon amputated, he died two months later due to complications.
rRXR1 TIL a lady named Gloria Ramirez was named the "The Toxic Lady" after death due to releasing "a garlic-like smell" that the medical staff thought came from her mouth, which actually came from her whole body, along with other strange symptoms. The reason as to why this happened is unknown.