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TIL there are 293 ways to make change for a dollar

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4Xorw TIL The 'Ides of March' is on 15 March. The Romans did not count days of the month from first to last. They counted backwards from three fixed points (Nones, Ides and Kalends).
Da1r TIL China owns less than 10% of USA’s overall debt
BrZD TIL That a small town in Minnesota attempted to secede from the US in 1977 to declare war and lose, thus receiving foreign aid for their failing water system. It worked.
gMwLX TIL tonsil stones can cause very bad breath. Tonsil stones are the small white hard objects that we spit out sometimes and which smell like death.
9Y80r TIL that Norway has the won the most gold medals in winter Olympic history and is the only nation to have at least 100 medals of each gold, silver, and bronze