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TIL Credit cards were never popular in China. The country skipped over a generation of finance and went straight to smartphone-based digital payments

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Wea8 TIL squirrels were voracious pests in colonial America. Bounties were imposed to reduce populations and some colonies even accepted squirrel scalps as payment for taxes. Colonists became such marksmen from shooting squirrels, they later devastated the ranks of British soldiers during the revolution.
njdW TIL that Wombat Poop is cube-shaped.
5VJr9 TIL True American was an antislavery newspaper which was printed in 1845 in Fayette County, Kentucky by Cassius Marcellus Clay.
8e9v4 TIL: The Holy Roman Empire (800-1806) was the First Reich and eventually became Germany. This is what Hitler's Third Reich was attempting to recreate.
XEAa8 TIL that Cheez-Its are not actually square. They measure approximately 26MM by 24MM.