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TIL The US shipped about $40 billion in cash to Iraq on planes between 2003 and 2008 and most of it went missing and is still unaccounted for today.

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GYRQE TIL that for a 20 year period in the mid-1800's, the US Mint issued a three cent coin, or "trime"
ANQna TIL that Bertha Mulvihill a survivor of the titanic had written stuff like: “What time did you hear of the disaster? I AM SO GLAD I WAS IN IT… The scene was awful. Don’t think me mad to be happy to witness the sight… I am awfully happy-like the night I was born-never felt happier in my life”
KOMxB TIL Mike Tyson offered a zoo attendant $10,000 to let him fight a gorilla
rare TIL you cannot chop down trees on your own property in Lake Forest, Chicago because of Mr. T.
m1pyY TIL The first $1 notes (called United States Notes or "Legal Tenders") were issued by the federal government in 1862 and featured a portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase (1861-1864).