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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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a86NZ TIL in 1939 the US Military produced less than 3000 planes. By the end of the war they had produced 300,000 aircraft, including almost 100,000 fighter planes.
v1RZx TIL the WHO has some very specific disease code classifications, such as "hurt at opera", "bitten by orca", "burn due to water skis on fire", and "unspecified spacecraft accident injuring occupant"
wL06E TIL on Michael Collins during Apollo 11 mission in July 1969, he was afraid of media focus if the mission failed , if he returned alone to Earth, & he was concerned about his mice companion not getting sick on quarantine back home.
gN1W TIL Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a ‘working model’ of his 'death beam’. He warned the management never to open it without taking proper precautions to avoid detonation. After his death in 1943, the box was pried open & they found nothing but a bunch of old lab components
7O0P TIL Police kill 8x more American Citizens than Terrorists