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TIL that 500 euro notes are often called “bin Ladens”, because everyone knows what they look like, but they are really hard to find

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GA70J TIL that during filming of The Passion Of the Christ (2004), Jim Caviezel was struck by lightning, accidentally scourged, had his shoulder dislocated, and suffered from pneumonia and hypothermia.
yVn6a TIL Bowditch's American Practical Navigator, an encyclopedia of navigation, has been in print since 1802. It is so popular that it's colloquially referred to after it's original author "Bowditch". In 1867 the US government bought the copyright and has published 52 editions of it since then.
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d875d TIL there is only one publicly known operator who served both DEVGRU (US Navy Seal Team 6) and US Army Delta Force
4k96o TIL about a man that saved a drowning bison calf in 2023 only to be criminally charged, fined, and the calf euthanized.