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TIL that most photocopiers and scanners can detect and refuse to scan currency, as well as Adobe Photoshop

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VMmjB TIL of an English cricketer nicknamed "The King of Spain" after mugs were misprinted with that slogan instead of "The King of Spin".
gMYJL TIL about the play Gatz. It's an eight hour long reenactment of the novel The Great Gatsby. The entire text of the novel is memorized by the cast.
J1818 TIL the sitcom Maude had unusual style episodes for its time, including several episodes featuring only 2 characters, and one episode where Maude is speaking to an unseen psychiatrist, and is the sole actor in frame the entire episode
7rYOx TIL That Asians are more likely to die from heart failure on the 4th of the month than they are any other day of the month (7.3% death rate above expected), due to increased stress from Tetraphobia (their cultural fear of the number 4). This has been termed the Baskerville effect.
JY6Aj TIL Big Ben is actually the name of the bell, not the tower itself, which is now called Elizabeth Tower.