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TIL that Australia uses Polymer bank notes that are waterproof and notoriously hard to counterfeit due to its complex design.

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VBGxp TIL the movie 'Die Hard' was Alan Rickman's first role in a feature film. Rickman later revealed that he almost turned down the role because he did not think Die Hard was the kind of film he wanted to make
DDjY TIL in 2012 alone, 6500 US military veterans committed suicide, accounting to roughly 22 per day.
ADWDg TIL Mountains of Kong, a non-existent mountain range charted on maps of Africa from 1798 through to the late 1880s
D1lee TIL The Muppets were featured on the first season of SNL but they got a poor reception and were fired. Jim Henson then created a new set of Muppets and and The Muppet Show, which was a take-off of SNL. It was a success.
b9gL4 TIL that it is legal to create a human- animal hybrid embryo, but it is only to be kept alive for 14 days.