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TIL that you can get arrested for using $2 bills at Best Buy.

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VM5o0 TIL the HMS Victory, most famously commanded by Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, has been preserved as a museum ship and is also the world's oldest naval ship still in commission, though the USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned ship still afloat
N7bZ1 TIL that it is impossible for a human to sneeze during sleep due to a bodily state known as REM Atonia as reflex signals are not communicated to the brain.
E1PBX TIL about a 50+ year old non-profit called The Society for Creative Anachronism, which is an international living history group with the aim of studying and recreating mainly European Medieval cultures and their histories before the 17th century.
QNWv9 TIL that the disease “the bends” were discovered while workers on the Brooklyn bridge came up too quickly while working down in the caissons
xVLDk TIL that the oldest undisputed known depiction of a human being, the Venus of Hohle Fels, is about 40,000 years old, and made from mammoth ivory. It's on display in a museum in a small German town.