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TIL that the lottery is illegal in Nevada

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0m51 TIL Swaziland’s 1 Lilangeni coin is identical in weight and dimensions to the £1 coin and can be used in vending machines. It’s worth £0.06
KYJ76 TIL The inventor of Science Fiction was a man born in the Second Century AD.
awG0J TIL R.E.M.’s “Man on the Moon” lyrics repeat “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah”. Michael Stipe said his friend Kurt Cobain had a habit of placing "yeah" in Nirvana songs so Stipe wanted to outdo him by writing a song with more “yeahs”
GAoA4 TIL Matt Fallon was the initial replacement for Neil Turbin in the band Anthrax
ZpE7Q TIL that in 1969, Richard Nixon had the White House Secret Service Uniformed Division's uniforms redesigned for formal occasions. The white with gold trim uniforms were widely criticized, and subsequently pulled from service. Many eventually wound up as Meriden-Cleghorn High School Band uniforms