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TIL Canadian 1-dollar and 2-dollar coins are called loonies and toonies.

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NY6b TIL the SR-71 Blackbird outran nearly 4000 missiles fired at it during its service life
VM7G0 TIL Erykah Badu's concert was cancelled in Malaysia in 2012 because it was found that she had applied a temporary tattoo of the word Allah on a part of her body
69X9Z TIL a heat wave in Europe in 2003 killed over 70,000 people.
Kr9a TIL Ursula and Sabina Eriksson, two swedish twin sisters, had a “shared psychosis” and ran into oncoming traffic on a highway while on holliday in the UK. [NSFW video]
m1G4x TIL George Washington feared that partisanship would lead to a “spirit of revenge” in which party men would not govern for the good of the people, but only to obtain and maintain their grip on power.