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TIL the Queen of England’s portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging

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OdoR TIL that in 1942 a Finnish sound engineer secretly recorded 11 minutes of a conversation between Adolf Hitler and Finnish Defence Chief Gustaf Mannerheim. It is the only known recording of Adolf Hitler’s normal unaltered speaking voice.
LkBgm TIL the word punch is a loanword from Sanskrit (pañc), meaning “five.” The drink was originally made with five ingredients: alcohol, sugar, lemon, water, and tea or spices
Y704P TIL of the "Gamma Forest" at Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York. A forest that was exposed to intense radiation in order to study the effects of nuclear war on a living ecosystem
R0ml TIL …that Al Qaeda targets and kills more Muslims than anyone else…
yQ5j8 TIL: Charles J. Guiteau who assassinated US President James A. Garfield, intentionally used a gun that would look nice in a museum.