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

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jNWmM TIL A Swedish company has created a "Mollii" suit that helps people with Parkinson's disease and stroke get rid of tremors using electrical stimulation.
R71p4 TIL Anne Frank wrote about the changes her body was going through in her diary, but her dad edited those parts out of the published manuscript.
Y7XYv TIL that in 1933, yo-yos were banned in Syria, because many locals superstitiously blamed the use of them for a severe drought.
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xgND TIL a genetic study of people from Iceland found a number of them had a mutation predominantly found among Native Americans. It has theorised that this could be because of American women breeding with Viking men, during Norse exploration of America in the 11th century AD.