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TIL In India zero-currency notes are paid in protest by angry citizens to government functionaries who solicit bribes in return for services which are supposed to be free. In 2007 a non-profit organization created the zero-currency note and thousands of notes are distributed every month.

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Wklmd TIL about South African Fritz Joubert Duquesne: Anglo Boer war soldier, spy for Germany in WW 1 and 2, adviser on big game hunting to U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, US citizen, British soldier, journalist, fake Australian war hero and head of the New Food Society in New York, and it goes on.
ANaAo TIL The seemingly nonsense phrase 'Fee-fi-fo-fum' from the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk is likely a sentence in ancient Gaelic meaning "Behold food, good to eat, sufficient for my hunger!" The phrase is atleast several hundred years old and is referenced by Nashe and Shakespeare.
J8aQ TIL In 1851 when the refrigerated ice machine was patented, the large ice-importing industry ran a smear campaign against the technology, calling it immoral.
Mwb7 TIL The concept of a spherical Earth dates back to the 6th century BC and it was confirmed by Hellenistic astronomy in the 3rd century BC
OPxe TIL 98% of women in Somalia have experienced forced gential mutilation