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TIL San Marino has two heads of state at once (a diarchy). The heads of state, called "Captains Regent" serve 6-month long terms. They currently have the youngest head of state in the world at 27 and have had a more female heads of state than any other nation with 18.

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a98y TIL that at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where Jewish prisoners forged the perfect counterfeit Bank of England note, the prisoners marked them with a pinhole in the Britannia (Roman Goddess of Britain) on the note, showing that they were forged.
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