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TIL that the Inca people used no money or currency of any kind.

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yVXWp TIL Lincoln said “there is a physical difference between the white and black races which..will forever forbid the 2..from living together on terms of social and political equality..there must be a position of superior and inferior..I as much as any am in favor of having the superior..the white race”
xaA5 TIL People are using discarded Christmas trees to catch sand and naturally rebuild sand dunes destroyed by hurricane Sandy
WkBO9 Today I learned that the presidente hotel is home to the largest wine cellar in Latin America, housing over 40,000 bottles of wine
8aZlK TIL that when a plane was hijacked over Switzerland in 2014, the neighboring countries of Italy and France had to send their own fighter jets to the scene because the incident happened outside of the Swiss Air Force's business hours, and even hijackings weren't important enough to pay for overtime.
WkORo TIL The first recorded instance of a person living in three centuries was that of Margaret Ann Neve, a woman from the British island of Guernsey who lived from 1792 to 1903.