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QJRXp TIL the Royal Canadian Mint has manufactured coins for over 70 countries
mG1v TIL the Roman emperor Nero kicked his pregnant wife to death and then felt so bad about it that he found a young boy that looked uncannily like her, had him castrated and married him.
dD4LK TIL of Carrie Nation, a woman who fought against the widespread alcohol consumption in the US before the prohibition by attacking saloons with a hatchet
YpdWd TIL of the National Defence Corps Incident. When a South Korean force of 406,000 suffered 300,000 casualties from starvation, disease and mass desertion due to High ranking officers embezzling funds earmarked for the purchase of food supplies.
BY9x TIL of the process of rubber duck debugging. A process whereby you explain your code line by line to a rubber duck in the hope of finding the fault.