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TIL Rum was a defacto currency in Australia

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Oor1L TIL Alan Turing used to practice his Cambridge lectures in front of a stuffed bear he got in college named Porgy. He kept the bear with him throughout life.
9YoMX TIL Philippe II Auguste once suggested a duel between five champions on each side to decide a battle between France and England, but changed his mind after Richard the Lionheart suggested that the kings were among the champions, as Richard was too good of a knight.
W7LRd TIL the burial site of Eve, which allegedly gave the ancient Arabian city of Jeddah (grandmother) its name, was cemented over by Saudi authorities in 1975
KYR96 TIL: Male echidnas have a four-headed penis — during mating, the heads on one side "shut down" and do not grow in size, while the other two are used to release semen. Each time it copulates, it alternates heads in sets of two. Prior to 2007, no one had ever seen an echidna ejaculate.
Qpak TIL after the first version of Word was shipped, Microsoft sent the whole developer team to Cancun on vacation