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TIL the most expensive error banknote is a US $20 bill with a Del Monte fruit sticker stuck to it that sold for $396K in 2021. It was discovered in 2003 when a college student got it from an ATM & sold it online for $10K. Experts believe the sticker was likely placed deliberately by a bored employee

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E1Qwx TIL on the same day Carol Greider was notified she had won the Nobel Prize of Medicine in 2009, funding for her grant proposal on the very subject she won the Prize for was rejected and deemed, in her words, "not worthy for discussion" less than 3 hours later.
Lkj9V TIL That the Normandy landings were only made possible by a disinformation campaign designed by the allied troops with the aim of misleading the German High Command as to the location of the invasion.
KObXw TIL that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch contains around 80 million kg of floating plastic debris of various size and shape, principally made of Polyethylene and Polypropylene, accumulated in an area 3 times the size of continental France.
oBnlW TIL a drifter named Theodore Coneys, AKA the Denver Spider Man, broke into a man’s house and hid in the tiny attic, ended up murdering the man, then continued to hide in the attic for months during the murder investigation, while the murdered man’s wife still lived in the house.
VMMdZ You’re watching a movie. A dog and his human companions run through a battlefield, dodging gunfire and explosions. Be honest: you’re more concerned that the dog will perish, not the people, right?