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TIL New Mexico license plates are the only ones with USA on them because Americans don’t know it’s part of their country

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weQ7 TIL Ecuador’s official currency is the United States dollar.
XEg9j TIL the word “you” used be only (the 2nd person) plural (“thou” was singular), then it changed to only singular, and today it’s both singular and plural
WkP6d TIL St. Nicholas (aka Santa Claus) is the patron saint of prostitutes
VM5bm TIL that prior to 1976, Oklahoma had a lower drinking age for women than for men
4WBw TIL Room 101, the torture chamber in George Orwell’s 1984, was named after a meeting room at the BBC where Orwell would have to sit through tortuously boring meetings.