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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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Jev1 TIL that prostitutes developed the West. They earned much more than the men they served, so were able to become providers of many important services such as education. In 1869, Wyoming was the first territory to allow women to vote. They then refused to become a state unless women kept that right
VRk TIL that Ook, the owl that played Hedwig, was the first actor cast in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.
renW TIL that “forlorn hope” (the name of the first wave of attacking soldiers in battle, who take the most casualties) is actually a clumsy mistranslation of the Dutch phrase “verloren hoop,” meaning “lost troop.”
NXyVb TIL about the Leaning Tower of Niles, a half-scale replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, located in Niles, IL and completed in 1934.
KY9G6 TIL an episode of Peppa Pig was banned in Australia because it taught children that "spiders can't hurt you", because Australian spiders can actually hurt you