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TIL The Poh Teck Tung Foundation is a rescue foundation founded in Thailand famously known for rescuing road accident victims and managing unclaimed corpses with proper burials.

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9wAW6 TIL that while the use of Lemons as a cure for Scurvy was published in 1753 the British Admiralty refused to use it until 1793, while the Merchant Navy ignored the discovery all the way up to 1867.
OvAL TIL while most countries place the currency symbol either before or after the amount, the Cape Verdean escudo places its symbol in the decimal position (i.e 20$00)
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