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TIL that gold coins are carried by elite military units as emergency currency in war and conflict situations behind enemy lines

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9YWo6 TIL in 1638, Pope Urban VIII commissioned the song Miserere from Allegri based on Psalm 51 & forbade transcriptions from being made. In 1770, Mozart at age 14 copied it from memory under threat of excommunication. Word got back to the Pope, who summoned Mozart & awarded him a Papal Knighthood.
GNDE TIL that in 1918, pink was for boys because it is a stronger color, while the delicate blue was reserved for girls.
pK8Q TIL in WW2 the Germans had a secret base in Norway developing nuclear weapons until a small group of Norwegian commandos blew it up in the middle of the winter.
Jx44 TIL that the planet Uranus was discovered before the continent of Antarctica
KOmLw TIL in 2016, a brewery allegedly produced a beer using yeast from a woman’s vagina. [NSFW]