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TIL An estimated two-thirds of all US $100 bills are held outside the US

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kQxm TIL due to lack of sugar in their diet the average person in the Middle Ages had teeth that were in very good condition
XEVo8 TIL that until the Salary Grab Act was passed in 1873, President Ulysses S. Grant earned the same salary as George Washington did 80 years earlier.
XQEP TIL that the USA had 1,104 shark attacks between 1958-2014; 35 fatal. Australia only had 665 shark attacks during the same time frame, with 232 of them fatal.
jbdX TIL That when a UK autoshop mechanic saw the Google Street View car coming his way, he staged a murder scene. Police paid the shop a visit a year later after the image was finally spotted on Street View.
66l8 TIL that while the Nilgai (a kind of antelope) are considered vermin and pests in India, where they originate, they are specially imported thousands of miles as exotic animals for Texan ranches. A single ranch now has over ten thousand.