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TIL The Royal Canadian Mint’s International Minting division produces currency for about 80 countries.

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WkNmN TIL beekeepers are advised not to eat bananas due to their smell making bees agressive because it releases the same pheromones that alert bees to attack
N7JJ6 TIL dogs not eligible to continue guide dog training are offered "career changes"
EKjx TIL that the Romans believed that ‘genius’ was a divine entity, and that artistic works are the result of 'having a genius’. The more humanistic concept of 'being a genius’ was introduced during the Renaissance.
OGyZ1 TIL about the British post office scandal. Between 1999 and 2015 over 900 subpostmasters where prosecuted for theft and false accounting, when really it was a problem with their accounting software.
ZEQo TIL Iceland forgave its entire population of Mortgage Debt and the media didn’t really pick up on it