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TIL that nearly 75 percent of all Rolls-Royce cars ever built are still on the road.

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oPRo TIL After WWI, the German government deliberately made the value of their currency nearly worthless in order to pay back the Allies.
GAPy5 TIL Franconian Switzerland, one of Germany's oldest tourist regions in Upper Franconia in the state of Bavaria, owes its name to 19th century travellers. They gave the former "Muggendorfer Gebürg" its current name because the area reminded them of Switzerland with its mountains, valleys and rocks.
9XXp TIL in 1986, the United States suspended New Zealand from the ANZUS treaty after New Zealand declared a section of their waters a nuclear free zone
Bo8x TIL that the Minnesota Vikings are building a stadium that costs more than sending a space probe to Pluto.
WByo TIL the prosthetic make-up Jim Carrey wore for the grinch took about 8 hours to apply. Carrey felt so horribly confined and uncomfortable in the latex skin he needed counseling from a CIA agent who taught him torture-resistance techniques.