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TIL Issac Newton invented the ridges along the edges of coins, still in use today, to prevent theft

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geJ7 TIL in the Chanukah episode of Rugrats, there was a building with Hebrew writing that reads “mohel,” which translates to the “covenant of circumcision,” and offers a “cut rate.”
4X5NJ TIL that Julia Child, autor of The French Chef, helped the US military in WW2 to develop a shark repellant that is still used today.
gae7 TIL that prior to the explosion in worldwide sushi consumption, bluefin tuna were considered so worthless that they were often used for cat food.
XEEr6 TIL that Goku is 5'9" and 135 lbs.
GR67 TIL that “TASER” is an acronym for Thomas A. Swift’s Electric Rifle