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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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YpVDA TIL of the English succession wars which all started because 3 of England's potential heirs drowned in the English Channel. The white ship sank in 1120 with the legitimate son of Henry 1st, William, his bastard, Richard and his daughter Matilda, on board.
XAaX TIL in 1984 Stephen Fry bought the third Mac computer ever sold in Europe. The first two were purchased by none other than Douglas Adams.
QMpk TIL Native Americans descend from three migrations from Siberia
VBLGQ TIL in the 1920 (USA) census, 99% of all men with the first name of Booker were Black
0gl5 TIL that the so-called second shoe print at the murder scene that helped acquit OJ Simpson turned out to be just a pattern in the cement.