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TIL The British pound is the world’s oldest currency still in use - it is 1200 years old.

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YpGlA TIL that it is custom in Indian culture to give gifts in amounts like $101 and $501, especially at weddings. This is to support the idea that, like the gift, the couple is indivisable
11bW TIL in 1947 Steve McQueen joined the United States Marine Corps and his rebellious attitude caused him to be demoted 7 times to Private.
GYL7E Til that there was a Titanic short film that was released 19 days after the tragedy.It starred Dorothy Gibson who survived the actual titanic.But no prints survive today,making it a lost film.
b9Db4 TIL while native citizens of the small European principality of Monaco cannot gamble in their own physical casinos, they can legally gamble on online ones
R59ba TIL about the Diprotodon – the largest marsupial ever. It weighed up to 3,500 kg (close to an Asian elephant), looked like some capybara on steroids and was likely driven to extinction by humans some 40,000 years ago