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TIL Ecuador’s official currency is the United States dollar.

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9YAB7 TIL U.S. WWII internment camps didn't just hold American Japanese. U.S. citizens of Italian, Irish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish ancestry; most arrested and detained as “Germans.”
e0p9n TIL that 28 fossils of the largest extinct species of snake were discovered in a coal mine of Columbia. The "Titanoboa" lived about 65 million years ago. The species clocked out at about 48 feet long and weighed roughly 2,500 lb.
nKYr TIL that the Chinese government has been widely accused of harvesting and selling organs from imprisoned practitioners of the Falun Gong spiritual practice and other political prisoners.
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