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TIL The US Dollar is the official currency of East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, and Panama

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G8DG TIL 19th century Czech anatomist-physiologist, Jan Purkyně (Johann Purkinje), was so famous that when people from outside Europe wrote letters to him, all they had to put as the address was “Purkyně, Europe”.
7lxb TIL Vehicles that have 5 or more cars behind them can be ticketed for not letting them pass in CA. Or even seen as the cause of an accident.
wLnd7 TIL That American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.
wLWoJ TIL about the Megalithic Temples of Malta. Built during three distinct periods approximately between 3600 BC and 2500 BC on the island country of Malta. They had been claimed as the oldest free-standing structures on Earth until the discovery of Göbekli Tepe.
lopr7 TIL a migratory bird named Onon is taking trips around the world defying odds.