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TIL that stores on US military bases around the world don’t accept pennies as currency because they’re “too heavy and are not cost-effective to ship”

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VoY0 TIL in 1984 an contestant made it onto the game show Press Your Luck. He discovered using his stop-motion VCR that the presumed random patterns of the game board were not random and memorized the sequences. On the game he was on, he won 45 consecutive spins. winning $110,237 in cash & prizes.
ZZLo TIL The actors in ‘Alien’ were not told about the alien chestbursting out of the body, causing one actress to pass out and another actor to nearly have a heart attack after having a few gallons of animal parts exploded onto their bodies.
KgV4 TIL Gold can be created in a laboratory, but it is dangerously radioactive.
Wk4VN TIL That George Bonga, the first African-American born in the territory that became Minnesota, was also legally the first white person to be born in the state as all non-natives were legally categorized as white
awVlN TIL the Rolls-Royce Merlin exhaust gases exited at 1300 mph (2100 kph) and when angled backwards produced 70 pounds-force (32 kg-f) of thrust. This increased the Spitfire's top speed by about 10 mph (16 kph).