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TIL than in 2012 Iceland considered adopting the Canadian Dollar as its currency

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k8r7 TIL the short poem of “Three blind mice, see how they run” is just a small bit of a longer poem storying the lives of 3 mice who go on an adventure, become homeless, starving, get blinded, go crazy, get their tails chopped off and eventually live happily ever after.
won16 TIL Ari Nagel aka "The Sperminator" has fathered over 100 children. He turns down no woman and doesn't charge for his services, although he pays child support for several of them. Three documentaries, including The Baby Daddy (2022) and Spermworld (2024), have featured his contributions.
N7wae TIL the United States Secret Service was founded to investigate and combat counterfeit U.S. currency. Only after the assassination of McKinley in 1901 was it tasked with protecting the President.
jNkwQ TIL Humans and the Tyrannosaurus rex are closer on the world's timeline than the T. rex and Stegosaurus.
WRPN TIL in a housing experiment that involved moving families from poor neighborhoods to wealthier neighborhoods, boys experienced PTSD rates comparable to those of combat soldiers. Psychological well-being improved for girls.