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TIL that a convicted money forger was honored by becoming the face on the Australian 10 dollar bill.

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0dmEv TIL numerous unethical experiments have been conducted on human subjects in the US without their consent, often targeting children, the sick, and marginalized groups.
4YPJ TIL that the “Byzantine Empire” is a historiographical term “created after the end of the realm; its citizens continued to refer to their empire as the Roman Empire”
VM7wZ [TIL] that before Ian McDiarmid Played the Emperor in ROTJ the original portrayal in Empire Strikes Back was an actress with a male voice dubber over.
4kO65 TIL that there are at least 5 species of shark living in the Thames estuary (which runs through London), and that one of those species is venomous.