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TIL that the United States Dollar is solely backed by "full faith and credit by the United States" after the gold standard was dropped in 1971.

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oBrL8 TIL Oxford University, established in 1096AD, is older than the Aztec Civilization which emerged around 1325AD.
4EGg TIL AT&T has a center in San Francisco (dubbed “Room 641A”) whose sole purpose is to monitor domestic and global internet traffic. There are potentially ten to twenty of these across the country.
vR0x TIL France banned radio and television news anchors from saying the words “Facebook” and “Twitter” on air.
AYb7 TIL that Macklemore worked at a juvenile detention center to help the detainees express themselves by writing and creating rap lyrics
ANMex TIL Tony's Chocolate bars are unequally divided by design to represent the inequality in profits within the chocolate industry. The chunks to the bottom left corner of the bar represent Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo+Benin, Nigeria, & Cameroon + the Gulf of Guinea, source of 60% world cocoa supply.