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TIL that Geneva Steel, in an effort to show the company’s importance to the local economy, paid its employees bonuses in $2 bills, which then started showing up in local businesses

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e0yLb TIL John Steinbeck after visiting Kiev in 1947: "If the US were completely destroyed from New York to Kansas, we would have about the area of destruction Ukraine has. If six million people were killed, not counting soldiers, 15% of the population, you would have an idea of the casualties of Ukraine"
e0p1L TIL of "Skin Hunger" , where not receiving adequate human touch can have emotional and physical consequences.
65Q8 TIL there is a museum in North Korea dedicated to remembering a mass murder of communist sympathizers during the Korean War
LQoEQ TIL that in the year 2000, Norm MacDonald nearly won a million dollars for Paul Newman’s charity for children, but host Regis Philbin talked him out of answering the question so he only won $500,000
Oj6Y TIL Saudi Arabia’s Minister of the Interior met with a terrorist who stated that he would surrender unconditionally. The two men sat on the floor. The terrorist began to shake and cry and then blew himself up. The minister survived, because the explosives in the terrorist’s rectum blasted downward.