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TIL a man in Sweden receives disability benefits due to his “addiction to Heavy Metal”.

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D1N5V TIL the $2 bill makes up 1% of currency circulation. Its scarcity in daily use has confused some merchants who believe the bill to be fake. A 13 year-old girl in Texas was detained by Police when she tried to pay for her school lunch w/a $2 bill, b/c the school’s counterfeit pen wouldn’t work on it.
E1VO7 TIL that black rhinos are very close to extinction due to habitat loss and illegal poaching. Today, only about 5,500 black rhinos are alive in the wild.
d814d TIL of An0m, a device marketed to criminal organizations as super-secure, with its own closed messaging network. It was actually run by law enforcement across multiple countries, who got copies of every communication sent through it.
e05dJ TIL the stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad were not in the original 1001 Arabian Nights, but are believed to have been added by the French explorer Antoine Galland, who heard them from various sources in Europe and implemented the stories into new translations of the Nights.
Wk6M9 TIL it dramatically reduces the life of a Lithium-ion battery to completely charge to 100% or for it to drain to 0%