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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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0wgpR TIL that stuck inside on a rainy day in 1816, writers Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori challenged each other to a ghost writing contest. These stories later turned into Frankenstein (Shelley) and The Vampyre (Polidori), the latter of which inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula
Z8lnB TIL that Repunzel is the princess of social distancing. She has a whole song about what you can do by yourself stuck in a room. And as an odd coincidence, she happens to be the princess of Corona.
pYYdO TIL the asteroid impact that caused the dinosaur extinction set 70% of the world's forests on fire, caused tsunamis that rose to a height of 300ft (100m), and ejected 25 trillion metric tons of debris into the atmosphere that reduced sunlight by up to 90% for a decade.
a8pVN TIL After pressure from his parents and advice from his college tutors, Bob Klose quit the band Tea Set in mid-1965. In late-1965 the band rebranded as Pink Floyd.
LkN9d TIL: The sound of a TIE Fighter from Star Wars is a combination of an elephant call with a car driving on wet pavement