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TIL Japanese yen banknotes are produced from plants that grow in Nepal, making the Himalayan paper bush one of Nepal's important exports.

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78mlX TIL that Osgood Perkins's mother, Berry Berenson, was the sister of Marisa Berenson and granddaughter of Elsa Schiaparelli. She died in the September 11 attacks.
ZQvR TIL Pillbugs/roly polys/doodlebugs aren’t actually bugs or millipedes, but actually crustaceans.
4yQN TIL Kurdish women are fighting ISIS because ISIS members believe they will go directly to hell if they are killed by a woman.
B44r TIL in 1924, children playing on the banks of a river in Germany discovered a human skull. More bones were discovered, eventually leading to the arrest of Fritz Haarman, who was butchering humans and selling their flesh as pork.
XkbQ TIL the CIA in Vietnam, in a program called “Operation Phoenix,” secretly, without trial, executed at least twenty thousand civilians in South Vietnam who were suspected of being members of the Communist underground.