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TIL $100 bills made up 80% of all US currency

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PYr4e TIL that "zombies" first appeared on movie screens in a 1919 French film called J’accuse. Director Abel Gance used soldiers on leave from fighting in Verdun to portray “an army of the dead.”
mxQJP TIL that the individual who essentially invented the U bend, the pipe shape in almost all modern toilets, was named Thomas Crapper.
jNBGj TIL that Quentin Tarantino has no respect for the biopic because they are just big excuses for actors to win Oscars.
LkLyV TIL about a beauty contest held in Singapore in 1998, which awarded 60% of the marks for knowledge of the internet.
OoWJe TIL Autistic people communicate with each other as effectively as Neuro-typicals communicate with one other