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TIL that the Vietnamese unit of currency is the 'Dong.'

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xk8k TIL that most German men sit while they pee and are taught that standing to pee is unhygienic
nWl4G TIL that after enjoying success with the violent and groundbreaking first-person shooter game "Wolfenstein 3D" (1992), games developer id Software licensed their 3D engine to "Super 3D Noah's Ark", a Christian video game that features Noah shooting food at animals inside his ark.
GYJ75 TIL of the Bone Wars. In the late 1800s, two rival paleontologists sought to disgrace each other, resorting to bribery, theft, attempts to cut off funding, and destruction of bones. Both paleontologists were ruined financially, but their efforts led to the discovery of 136 new species of dinosaurs.
j6ZMN TIL the Yamato Colony was a 1905 Japanese settlement in Florida created by businessmen and State authorities to spur agriculture and trade. By WWII the remaining Japanese were interned in camps and had their land taken away. Today only a museum and park remain.
9O7G TIL that King George VI was appalled when the South African government instructed him to only shake hands with white people while on his visit there in 1947. He referred to his South African bodyguards as “the Gestapo”.