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TIL about the CFA franc, a currency system for 14 former French colonies that’s managed in France and pegged to the Euro making monetary independence for the member nations all but impossible

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kOXGe TIL of the Teapot Dome Scandal: Between 1921-1923 during Harden's presidency, the Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, secretly leased federal oil reserves to the Mammoth Oil Company in exchange for $200k worth of liberty bonds. He became the first Cabinet secretary to go to prison.
r8Jw TIL Nate Boyer, a former Green Beret, was the one who suggested taking a knee to Colin Kaepernick
ZpVJY TIL you can bring water through TSA checkpoints…frozen
RvPa TIL NFL Cheerleaders make less than $1,250 a season and less than 5 dollars an hour
QJPpX TIL Despite Mac and Dick McDonald having already franchised 6 restaurants before meeting Ray Kroc, Ray considers himself the founder. He even falsely claims in his autobiography that his franchise was the first McDonald’s ever opened