Today I Learned (TIL)

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TIL the city of Melbourne gave email addresses to trees so locals could report problems, but they received thousands of love letters instead

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TIL That the US Treasury planned to replace Alexander Hamilton’s face on the $10 bill with a notable woman from US history, but decided to instead change Jackson’s face on the $20 bill, almost entirely due to the popularity of “Hamilton”

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TIL that the Polish medal for couples who have made it to 50 years of marriage has a higher rank than the medal for deployment to Afghanistan

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TIL if you are thrown out of a Las Vegas strip club, you are entitled to be reimbursed your cover charge and the cost of any alcoholic beverage you purchased. (Las Vegas Code of Ordinances sec.6.06B.090(O).)

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TIL we call letters “uppercase” and “lowercase” because the original printing presses kept letter blocks in literal cases; since small letters were used more often, they kept them in the bottom case for easy access; thus, lowercase (and uppercase) were born.

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