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TIL there is a $100 coin that is legal U.S. tender. They weigh1 ounce and are 99.95% platinum. This is the highest face value ever to appear on a U.S. coin.

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b6gv7 TIL that Gretchen Weiners' "We should totally just STAB CEASAR!" monologue from "Mean Girls" is just a re-working of Cassius' lines from the original play. Act 1, Scene 2, lines 135-161
ynk8 TIL after the 2012 earthquake in Italy damaged €110,000,000 worth of Parmigiano cheese, world-renowned chef Massimo Bottura spread the word on social media how to easily make Risotto. As a result, almost all the cheese was utilized and the company didn’t have to lay off a single employee.
RKg6 TIL a lake in India catches fire because it’s so polluted.
GOJQ TIL of the “idiot plot”. The term was popularized by film critic Roger Ebert, who defines it as “[a]ny plot containing problems that would be solved instantly if all of the characters were not idiots”.