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RWb6 TIL over 5,000 Amish people travel each year to vacation in “Amish Las Vegas”. (Pinecraft, Florida) Use of cellphones and cameras is very common there, and almost everyone uses electricity in their rental homes.
X0eEQ TIL Previous to the Euro there was the Latin Monetary Union in which many European countries would mint coins to the same LMU standards allowing for ease of exchange. The LMU was established in 1865 and disbanded in 1927. The standards fell out of favor due to currency debasement and WW1.
7Qwr TIL that rich people in China hire body doubles to serve their prison sentence
VM70p TIL the earliest form of the odometer was invented in Ancient Greece, probably around the time of Alexander the Great, and Ancient China in the first century
e01A4 TIL that Canada still has 91% of the forest cover that existed at the beginning of European settlement