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TIL that the Japanese translate “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” as “Monty Python and the Holy Sake Cup” and that the Knights Who Say Ni in the Japanese version wanted a bonsai tree instead of a shrubbery.

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6EN8Q TIL that the 20th President of the US, James A. Garfield, contributed an original proof of the Pythagorean Theorem before he became president. He came up with it during a discussion with other members of Congress, and it was published in the New England Journal of Education.
OlAg TIL that only THREE books have survived from the Maya Civilisation pre-European contact.
v1gnx TIL that a 2014 study conducted by the WIFII determined that roughly 4% of webpages contain a reference to female anatomy
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OGQDe TIL United States had $1 coins until 2011