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TIL America has had many large denominations ($+100), including a $100,000 bill

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X0joQ TIL Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–1944) believed she was a great opera singer despite being completely tone-deaf. She performed in extravagant costumes, including tinsel wings, and dismissed laughter as jealousy. Her famous quote: “People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.”
Q6RX TIL the financial firm Cantor Fitzgerald sued American Airlines for negligence for letting 9/11 hijackers board their flights. The attacks led to the deaths of numerous Cantor Fitzgerald employees and the destruction of their World Trade Center office. They settled out of court for $135 million.
eVE6 TIL there was a man named Joseph Bolitho Johns who escaped Australian prison so many times, they built a special cell just for him. He escaped that as well.
bvQa TIL that in the early 1950’s, Stanley Kubrick planned on moving to Australia due to his fear of death from a possible nuclear war between Russia and America.
mMgo TIL there’s a mutant in the Marvel Universe named ‘Eye-Scream’ whose only power is to 'transform himself into any flavor of ice cream, including banana-split.’