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TIL Chuck Berry was incarcerated for more than a year at Springfield's federal prison. He used his time behind bars to study business and wrote several songs including "Nadine" and “No Particular Place to Go”

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kJaGe TIL: That the Federal Reserve is sitting on an unused $1 billion stock pile of $1 coins minted at an expense of around $300 million, partly because despite numerous attempts Americans do not want to use the coins but prefer to use the paper note instead
b95pa TIL In 1986, Double Dare filmed the first 65 episodes in just 23 days, sometimes 4 episodes per day.
vPNPj TIL the theory an asteroid caused the dinosaur mass extinction did not emerge until 1980
R5KP8 TIL There are more stars than grains of sand on all the beaches but there are more molecules than that in 10 drops of water
QVwX TIL that the official twitter account of Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage.