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

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1aPWX TIL brainfuck is an esoteric programming language whose compiler uses only 240 bytes of memory making it around 11,000 times smaller than the C++ compiler.
5eJ9 TIL that in 2011, Comcast asked its staff to vote on The Consumerist’s “Worst Company in America” poll so they wouldn’t “win”. The Consumerist noticed the traffic from teamcomcast.com and asked them to not “game the system”
Bgb4y TIL that the Talking Heads' lead singer David Byrne has given an explanation for the big suit famously seen in the concert film "Stop Making Sense"; it was to make his head look smaller.
W7JrB TIL 18 year old Milton Olive III saved the lives of 4 soldiers by grabbing a grenade that was thrown in their midst and falling on it to absorb the blast with his body. Posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, he was the first African American recipient from the Vietnam War.
LVA9 TIL that Justin Timberlake guest-starred as a singing booger in an episode of The Cleveland Show