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TIL the US government recalled and burned $200m in currency and printed special money for Hawaii in case Japan invaded

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0OwM TIL that Leland Yee, the Senator who fought to ban the sale of violent video games to minors, was arrested for attempting to traffic illegal weapons, including “shoulder-launched missiles”
wox86 TIL that in 1965, philosophy professor Hubert Dreyfus, a staunch critic of artificial intelligence, boldly claimed that a machine would never beat a human at the game of chess. It would only be two years before the outspoken scholar was himself checkmated by an MIT-developed computer.
Av4l TIL about Muphry’s law. It states that a written​ criticism of editing will always contain an editing error.
4R9N TIL that in 1945 a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, caught the morning train so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another atomic blast.
VMKG TIL the Federal Reserve secretly gave out $16,000,000,000,000 in a 0 % “all inclusive loan program” to failing banks and corporations all around the world