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TIL that humans didn't perform the critically acclaimed high five before the 70's.

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MeLEB TIL In 1990 Disney wanted to put Minnie Mouse on the $5 bill of their in house currency and promote it as the first woman on a dollar bill. It was then revealed that Martha Washington on a $1 bill in 1891. In reality Pocahontas was even earlier, appearing on a $20 bill in 1863.
grnr9 TIL Kim il-Sung was raised in a family of Presbyterian Christians
QvZe TIL the Executive Director of the Sugar Bowl, who runs one football game a year, makes more in salary than the President of the United States
5YRV9 TIL: An FBI file says (pg.34) a "clairvoyant" (name redacted) claimed the space shuttle Challenger explosion was the work of NASA-employed "local conspirators" in security whose addresses she gave. Checks found "none of the current security employees, or recent dismissals" lived in the general area.
Yr1Z TIL that as of 2016, just 49.3% of the world population lived in countries with some form of fair and free elections, and only 4.5% could be said to be living in a full democracy.