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TIL You can buy $10,000 shredded dollars for $45 bucks, straight from the government!

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pYR4 TIL From 1913 to 1920 Russia lost 48.5 million of its population.
kOZLe TIL in the 1990s, a Russian mafia and Italian mafia organization participated in a literal money-laundering scheme, washing and bleaching the ink out of US$1 bills and reprinting them as $100s, for use in the post-Soviet bloc countries, where the bills might avoid detection as counterfeits.
JwY4 TIL there is a species of flatworm that after sex, if the female has been filled with unwanted sperm from an undesirable partner, it can double over, put its mouth over its genital opening, and suck the sperm back out. This gives the female control over who fertilises her eggs.
00J5 TIL that Tom Cruise was originally slated to play Tony Stark/Iron Man but got dropped because he demanded that his face was visible at all times.
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