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TIL Canadian Bank notes have various resources in place for the blind and partially sighted, including a tactile feature for symbol system differentiating between bills.

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R7kJQ TIL: Trapped behind enemy lines during the Korean War Chester Puller Stated, "We’ve been looking for the enemy for several days now. We’ve finally found them. We’re surrounded. That simplifies our problem of finding these people and killing them." He and his men survived.
Q4Gp TIL Jocelyn Bell Burnell, the astronomer to discover pulsars, was denied the Nobel Prize in preference of her thesis supervisor; a man who believed they were caused by aliens.
N7Y9J TIL Of the Oldest 100 Americans to Have Ever Lived, Only 6 Were Men
D0Zr TIL in 1962, the Department of Defense proposed staging a series of terrorist attacks in US cities in order to drum up public support for war with Cuba. It was rejected by President Kennedy.
YpnpA TIL the expression "Curiosity killed the cat" originally continued with "but satisfaction brought it back"