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TIL if you go to Venezuela with one US penny, you can buy 5 gallons of oil

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yQyN8 TIL the key difference between a ship and a boat is a ship can carry a boat, but a boat cannot carry a ship
d8Ner TIL about Sgt. William Carney, the first African American to win the Medal of Honor
oBmQL TIL in medieval France there was a Christian feast day honoring Mary, Joseph, and Jesus' escape to Egypt. The day was called the Feast of the Ass, and included a woman and child riding on a donkey. It was celebrated on January 14.
OolyY TIL that while interbreeding occurred between neanderthals and early modern humans, the only genetic evidence of these events conserved within the human genome comes from Y chromosomal DNA meaning that all neanderthal DNA within modern humans comes from male neanderthal and female human pairings.
R5KQ7 TIL of a 4,000 year old complaint letter (in clay) about a delivery of sub-standard copper ingots.