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TIL that over 90% of all currency (euros) in circulation in Spain have trace amounts of cocaine

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nKQB TIL: Shelly Miscavige, wife of head Scientologist David Miscavige, has been ‘missing’ since 2007
mxJjv TIL that Disneyland edited out every cigarette they could find in Walt Disney’s photographs, causing his unusually iconic two finger pointing gesture. Tom Hanks even used it in Saving Mr. Banks as do Disney employees now.
GxLQ TIL the Han Dynasty in China was aware of the existence of the Roman Empire, calling them Daqin or “great Qin”. In 97 CE the Chinese attempted to send an envoy but he turned back after reaching a large “western sea”, discouraged by the long and perilous journey it would take to reach Rome itself.
78Q7 TIL that a college student, Alex Tew, created a website completely made of ads that he sold for $1/pixel (totaling $1,000,000)
v1Ljx TIL Helen Keller took over the controls of a Douglas Skymaster airplane for 20 minutes while flying over the Mediterranean during a trip from Rome to Paris. The instructions were relayed from the pilot to Polly Thompson, and then to Helen through fingerspelling.