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TIL Bank of America was intially called Bank of Italy

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7rPJr TIL of a record store in Soho that doesn't sell any records; it only buys original copies of the Beatles' "White Album"
bvw4 TIL Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini all have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, while Gandhi never won it
0wWDM TIL Inés Ramírez Pérez, a woman from Mexico. A mother of eight kids who had no medical training, performed a successful Caesarean section on herself. With 12 hours of continual pain she used a kitchen knife and three glasses of hard liqour whilst her husband was drinking at a bar.
Lk0Mm TIL that the game Rock Paper Scissors is as old as the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). It was also known in Japan as Slug Frog Snake.
m1w0E TIL of Philae 436, likely the very last ancient Egyptian heiroglyphs to be carved.