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TIL only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money, the rest only exists on computers.

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N7mO1 TIL in 1967 California State Senator Nicholas C. Petris proposed banning the use of internal combustion cars on California's roads by 1975.
epNmk TIL about Peter Winston, a chess prodigy, who - having posted a peak rating of 2285 and, aged only 14, beaten US Champion Walter Browne in 37 moves! - was last seen on January 26, 1978 and disappeared without a trace just before the Great New York blizzard of 1978 hit the East Coast.
aweo9 TIL that in the UK: public schools are private with difficult entry requirements, and private schools are the ones that are free and open to the public
wLxoY TIL of the Sharp EL-8061 - essentially a pocket-watch/calculator hybrid
bx6E TIL that because the concrete of the Hoover Dam was poured into individual, rectangular shaped sections–rather than with a single, continuous pour–the physical dam itself will survive up to 10,000 years and be one of the last remaining visible and recognizable monuments of humans on the planet.