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Agent641 , in TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing.

Sure, when you hand the cashier some US dollar coins, nobody bats an eye, but when I hand the cashier a stack of Australian $1 notes, everybody loses their minds!

delirious_owl , in TIL that in the 1860s one meaning of "Trump" was "A good fellow; an excellent person".
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What does “pulling a trump card” mean?

merc OP ,

Probably something to do with a card game.

delirious_owl , in TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing.
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They used to use the Sucre. When it crashed a lot of people lost a lot of money. I wish I knew more about that, and why they decided to bend over and use the world’s biggest terrorist organization’s currency.

intensely_human ,
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  • Edgelord horseshit

Always a fun combination.

Randomgal ,

Staggering ignorance. Not like you could just Google the answer. Lol

delirious_owl ,
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I would need to read a few books to fully understand something so complex.

Randomgal ,

It’s not like Wikipedia has an accesible version of all human knowledge.

ada ,
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Argentina is toying with the idea of doing the same thing. tl;dr - Decades of out of control inflation. Currently the worst inflation in the world. The belief is that pinning their economy to the USD would stop that

delirious_owl ,
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Yeah Argentina is slipping back into a fascist dictatorship

buzz86us , in TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing.

Looks like someone got a nice vacation with all those credit card points… lol bet they only switched because of that promotion

ThrowawayPermanente , in TIL Ecuador doesn't have its own currency and uses US dollars, but maybe not the same US dollars you are used to seeing.

Panama is the same

wjrii OP , in TIL Stanley the tool company is different from Stanley the cup company

I’d always sort of vaguely heard it was a poorly selling product from a company that was mostly marketing to those working outdoors, and that completely tracked with my expectations, so I never dug in deeper. I mean, it’s not like they DON’T sell cups.

PhlubbaDubba , in TIL: The ancient Greek philosopher Plato has a IMDB page and is credited as a writer (and actor for some reason)

This makes me wonder if someone credited Socrates as a lead actor in The Clouds

Aatube , in TIL: The ancient Greek philosopher Plato has a IMDB page and is credited as a writer (and actor for some reason)
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IMDb is user generated, and he stars in "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick" (?) from 1990.

EveningPancakes , in The ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap years

Reminder that we work for free tomorrow.

LemmyKnowsBest ,

😳

Edit: never mind, I’m not a victim of this. I guess there are some benefits of being an HOURLY capitalist slave.

You’re apparently a salaried capitalist slave.

otacon239 , in The ancient Romans made many attempts to fix the calendar year before landing on 12 months and leap years

A fun watch: youtu.be/vunESk53r5U?si=D_capAX5nr9ccQGZ

godfilma , in TIL Joseph Stalin was struck by a sport carriage and severely injured at age 12, which a certain source cited by the Simple English Wikipedia took as his father dying in a drunken brawl

If it’s incorrect you have the power to change it.

Aatube OP ,
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At the time I made the post, the article on Stalin was protected due to vandalism.

SocialMediaRefugee , in TIL that the white stuff that sometimes appears on chocolate is called "chocolate bloom".

I’ve been able to “repair” bloomed chocolate by melting it and mixing it back together

toxicbubble , in til you can make soda from pine needles

you can extract honey from sunflowers

dylanTheDeveloper , in TIL about the gameboy accessory that gasses kids to sleep for surgery
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A better idea is a teddy bear, when squeezed releases a neurotoxin through little spines embedded into the fur

ggnoredo , in TiL the car and gas industry knew about the health risks of leaded fuel but sold it for 100 years anyway

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