What's something new you learned recently?

Share something new you learned or just tell us a funfact that you think most people might not know.

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When British India split into India and Pakistan in the late 1940s, the government of India printed currency for Pakistan until they could get their own setup going. So for a couple years, Pakistani rupees were literally just Indian rupees with “GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN” stamped on them in Urdu and English.

Learning a fair amount of shit like this from ADHD-fueled wiki walks while doing the LP lol

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Lol how long was that for?

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Best I could figure without digging more, something like 18 to 30 months?

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Such a blip in history, it would have been so easily forgotten lol

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my fiance recently taught me that glycerin, which you can use to help moisturize your lips, works worse in dry places like Colorado because glycerin is a humectant, so it draws water from high to low!

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recently learned that one of the bird species we hear fairly regularly around eveningtime is actually not a swallow, but a common swift!

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learned you could get sepsis from your teeth if you really REALLY don’t take care of them.

Thank you random tangent my twin went on while we were eating LOL… :sob:

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TIL that when, on Windows 10/11, you create a text file containing the phrase This content is no longer available., it will be tagged by Windows Defender as a trojan.

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HVAC units more easily break/shut down when the temperature is set to below 78 F. When set under this the pipes/fluid starts to freeze, especially in hotter temperatures as the unit fights to bring down the temperature. Learned this from our HVAC company that gets sourced to us when our HVAC unit developed a perpetual leak and we had it set to 72 F.

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Bare knuckle boxing is safer than regular boxing (sorry this is a fact I’ve known for years, but still one that has stuck with me)

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