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TIL "Bank of America" was actually founded as the Bank of Italy in 1904

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6LDZ TIL Easter will be on April Fool’s Day in 2018
9YnmM TIL that the first album to sell over a million copies was Calypso by Harry Belafonte
78bVr TIL The fossilised remains of a T rex and a Triceratops who died fighting eachother, discovered in 2006, remained in private hands and thus unavailable for study unti 2024, partially because of land dispute over whether fossils are minerals or not. A court in Montanta ruled that fossils are minerals
16lOO TIL that Central Asia has a variety of Mandarin Chinese that is written in the Cyrillic Alphabet. It is regarded as its own separate language called "Dungan"
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