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TIL the U.S. has a PvP zone

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MWa TIL Canada is eliminating the penny, and has a collectible glow in the dark quarter with a dinosaur on it!
VM4p4 TIL that elephants walk on their tippy toes and have a padding under their heels similar to a person wearing high heels.
Gk85 TIL that when people attempt suicide and fail, their income increases by an average of 20.6 percent. The more serious the attempt, the larger the boost. “Hard suicide” attempts, in which luck is the only reason the suicide fails, result in a 36.3 percent increase in income.
5Yvj9 TIL that when 10 Downing Street was restored in the 1960s, it was found that its iconic black bricks were actually yellow, and had been stained black by two centuries of urban smog
v1GrK TIL of Jonathan Reed, a man who loved his wife so much that when she died, he moved into her tomb. He decorated it like a home and even brought their parrot to live with them. “My only pleasure is to sit here with all that is left of her.”