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TIL in 2015 nearly 97% of all counterfeit bills circulating in China originated from templates hand-drawn by artist Peng Daxiang. He made huge profits selling these templates to counterfeiting gangs, charging anywhere from $8,000-$20,000 per plate. He also forged diplomas & official certificates.

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jNw6n TIL Around 50% of the protein you consume comes from the Haber-Bosch process. Without this process, we would've never been able to maintain our current population's food intake.
dLQ8 TIL there is a actually Japanese term for that intangible sadness we all feel because of our awareness of life itself: “mono no aware”
M7RvA TIL that they’re called hamburgers because the term comes from Hamburg in Germany, where a minced beef style dish was first created
6o9Q TIL Stephen Fry spent time in prison for credit card fraud
16bM7 TIL a medieval chess piece orginally bought for £5 in 1964, then kept in a drawer for decades, sold for £735K in 2019. It was discovered the warder (equivalent to a rook) is one of the five major pieces (1 knight, 4 warders) missing from the 1831 Lewis chessman hoard of four 12th century chess sets.