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TIL that Senator Cory Booker is cousins with RuPaul

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e0QJb TIL The $10,000 bill featuring the portrait of Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was the highest denomination US currency ever to publicly circulate. A $100,000 bill featuring the portrait of Woodrow Wilson was issued, its purpose was to transfer funds between Federal Reserve Banks.
EEw0 TIL that in Sweden volunteers can sign up to receive a text message if someone is having a cardiac arrest 500 m from them so that they can start performing CPR before the paramedics arrive. There are currently 9600 volunteers.
pYNr4 TIL in 2013 research was conducted on Capri Sun that filtered it through a vacuum to see what would be left behind to grow on the filter paper. Researchers identified five species of fungus notating that because they don't put preservatives in the drink, it allows lots of fungi to survive
KOj4a TIL The first cat in space was a black and white stray named Félicette. She travelled on a French rocket Veronique and stayed 15 minutes in space. She returned safely home, before being euthanized by scientists to research the brain's activity after travelling to space.
ZknR TIL that Ada Lovelace, a female English mathematician and writer, wrote an algorithm in the mid 1800s designed to be carried out by a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.