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TIL that the singer Akon is launching a cryptocurrency called Akoin

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jOGE TIL That sailors considered black cats good luck and would use them as “ship’s cats” in hopes of a safe voyage. Wives of fishermen would also keep a black cat at home as it was believed that the cat would allow their husbands to return safely.
abJ0 TIL: The French filmmaker who wrote and directed The Red Balloon also invented the board game Risk.
nW8PG TIL for 1920 to 1940, 20 years, the U.S. Government forced every company to put lethal deadly poison in every alcohol. It killed over 10,000 people.
5618 TIL Oskar Schindler(of Schindler’s List) is the only member of the Nazi Party to be buried in Jerusalem on Mount Zion,Israel
o8eL TIL the FAA considered building a fake Havana airport in south Florida in the 1960s to address a spree of skyjackings. Many plane hijackers at the time wanted to fly to Cuba. They would have landed at the phony airport, thinking they were in Havana, then been surprised and arrested by U.S. agents.