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TIL Thousands of Aussies have gotten behind a petition to change the Australian currency to “dollarydoos.”

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4Xpmw TIL that over five million years ago the Mediterranean Sea almost dried up completely (after the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar) and when the strait opened up again it refilled somewhat rapidly in the event know as the Zanclean Flood.
rNb1w TIL In 1865, the Empire of Mexico recruited 900 black Sudanese soldiers from Egypt under the belief that they had immunity to yellow fever. They did not.
QNbBp TIL In 1857, Archduke Maximilian of Austria married Princess Charlotte of Belgium. Napoleon III later urged them to rule Mexico, where monarchists sought a crown. It ended badly—Maximilian died by firing squad and Charlotte suffered a mental breakdown.
dNN7 TIL Nintendo of Japan was afraid that Americans would rest soda cans on top of their Super Nintendos, it was redesigned when released in America to avoid this.
eGR4 TIL that a molten-salt reactor, a piece of technology conceived during the Cold War that forgoes solid nuclear fuel for a liquid one, can generate energy with far greater efficiency than any power technology in existence.