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TIL a ton of money is worth $908,000 (weighing only dollar bills)

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x7Yk TIL in the online game EVE a player group spent 12 months infiltrating a rival group, then assassinated their leader and stole or destroyed $16,500.00 USD worth of game money and supplies.
DQapV TIL that Anne Frank's stepsister is still alive. Eva Schloss and her family lived in the same apartment block as the Franks, and she often played with Anne and Margot. She and her mother survived Auschwitz, and her mother resumed her friendship with Otto Frank after the war. They married in 1953.
5VyLR TIl That Burma Dictator Ne Win announced the demonetisation of the 25, 35, and 75 kyat notes, leaving only the 1, 5, and 10 kyat bills valid and replaced them with 45 and 90 bills, wiping out 60-80% of legal tender and peoples savings.
P1ARE TIL the serjeant at arms of the house of commons in the United Kingdom since 2008 has been a woman, an arab man, then a black man.
nWoAo TIL that Isaac Newton became a member of Parliament but only spoke once, telling someone to close the window.