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TIL Phil Collins can beatbox

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x4vg TIL people have been making counterfeit money since the first coins were created, coating common metals with the precious metals used for currency. And counterfeiting is known as “the world’s second oldest profession”.
4X6Go TIL in computing, half of a byte is called a nibble
0wWGR TIL If a single ecoli bacterium had limitless resources and space, within 48 hours it would have split enough times into a colony with a mass 4000x that of the Earth
1awbV TIL that Hitler was a chronic tax evader, and was even fined by his own government over it in 1934. He then got the tax department to declare him exempt from taxation.
v16Rx TIL Mount Everest is a ticking poop time bomb:there are literally tons of human poop on Mount Everest, despite Sherpas bringing down 26 500 pounds of poop every season