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TIL That Americans speak English totally different from each other

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OobyR TIL of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, a Hungarian Jew, throughout his life he had jobs such as a Christian Priest, an MP and conman, in WW1 he became a German spy, took part in a Nationalist Revolt in Germany and met Hitler, left to China and was a Buddhist Abbot and claimed he was the next Dali Lamar.
m1pyY TIL The first $1 notes (called United States Notes or "Legal Tenders") were issued by the federal government in 1862 and featured a portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase (1861-1864).
wLO1E TIL The law making it illegal to profit from illicitly-obtained commodity reports is called "The Eddie Murphy Rule."
grde4 TIL that “smog” is a made-up word, just combining “smoke” and “fog”.
p8lv8 TIL about Vasily Arkhipov who if he had agreed with the other 3 officers in his submarine during the Cuban missle crisis could have very easily ended the world