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TIL that it was practically illegal to own gold in the US from 1933 to 1974. Roosevelt signed an Executive Order to force all citizens to turn in almost all gold for about $20 per ounce, then declared the value of $20 in gold to be worth $35 in paper currency - creating a massive inflation.

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aw4GA TIL 'Friends' (NBC, 1994) was nearly a ripoff of 'Living Single (Fox, 1993) - albeit a really good one. 6 white friends in Manhattan vs 6 black friends in Brooklyn with similar themes across episodes.
QNyxL TIL the "tank" was named by the British military during WWI to make the enemy think they were developing a kind of water carrier instead of a secret new weapon.
JXAv TIL Eating meat and cooking food is how humans got their big brains
78Z9r TIL about the Gault archaeological site, which has convincing evidence that humans inhabited North America 20,000 years ago
JYxjj TIL that during the Vietnam War, USAF Major Philip W. Handley achieved the world's only supersonic air-to-air gun kill, when he shot down a North Vietnamese MiG-19 while flying F-4 Phantom and using F-4's 20mm cannon, at 1.2 mach (800 kts).