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TIL for $45, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving & Printing will sell you a 5-lb bag full of $10,000 worth of shredded U.S. currency.

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7Mw7 TIL that PETA kills 89% of the animals it takes in
X0m5R TIL there are several land disputes between US and Canada
v1K0K TIL Arwen was about 2700 years old when she married Aragorn, who was roughly 90.
78AJP TIL about Edward Dando, notorious glutton and dine-and-dasher in 1800's Britain, who would eat dozens of oysters, not pay, go to jail, get released, and promptly do it again
Exb7 TIL that Bugs Bunny inadvertently transformed the word nimrod into a synonym for idiot because nobody understood his joke comparing Elmer Fudd to the Biblical figure Nimrod Aka A Great Hunter.