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

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xVr40 TIL that during WWI (and briefly WWII) the British would shame men into joining the military by recruiting young women to call them cowards on the streets of their hometowns. These women would also pin a white feather on them to symbolize their cowardice.
xY1w Today I learned that before getting her own show, Oprah Winfrey co-hosted a morning talk show where she could only speak when her male costar tapped her on her leg.
AKa7 TIL When Ernest Hemingway’s bullfighting masterpiece was contractually stuck with an undesired publisher he quickly wrote them another book, ridiculing their bestselling author. They had to reject it which triggered his escape from the contract.
VB584 TIL that masturbation was a capital crime in the Puritan colony of New Haven, Connecticut
G4Y4 TIL the Space Shuttle Enterprise was named after the Federation Starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) which, being a Federation flagship, was named after the United Earth Starship ISS Enterprise (NX-01) which was named after the Space Shuttle Enterprise.