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TIL in China the Yuan is the physical medium of exchange, but the official currency of China is called the Renminbi.

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PYoRE TIL cats commonly have white bellies and paws because when pigment develops in the womb, it starts along what will become the spine and works its way around to the front. Sometimes pigmentation doesn’t make it all the way around, resulting in color on top and white on the bottom.
5VLJr TIL The US had drones during WWII
oRWxK TIL that John A Phillips, in 1976, when he was a student at Princeton, made an essay about a model of a nuclear bomb he designed. This bomb would cost only 2000$ to build, so the fbi confiscated his essay. He was the only One of the class Who managed to get an A.
x6a9g TIL of the United States military training film A Welcome to Britain. Released in 1943, it educated GI’s about the less ethnically segregated UK and was narrated by Burgess Meredith.
Y9jd TIL a muscle of the hand, palmaris longus, is absent in 14% of the population. Some people can even have it in one hand and not in the other.