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TIL:We write $10, instead of 10$ (as it is spoken) to prevent forging “I owe you 10.00$” can easily be changed to “I owe you 910.00$” but “I owe you $10.00” can at most be increased by less than a penny to “I owe you $10.0099999”

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epkP6 TIL about Tayeb Souami, a New Jersey, originally from Africa, who bought a $5 orange juice from Shoprite. His wife sent him back to return it and get it for $2.50 at a different supermarket. With the refund and $2.50 savings, he bought 2 lottery tickets on a whim and won $315.3 million!
p8nA8 TIL that in 1922 a suitcase containing almost everything the young Ernest Hemingway had written up to that time was stolen in a train station in Paris. No trace of this suitcase has ever been discovered, despite the fact that the unpublished stories it contained would be incredibly valuable.
yZKV TIL there was an ancient highly sought after Roman spice called ‘Silphium’ that was so valuable and desired that it was worth its weight in silver coins; however, this demand led to its over-harvesting, which is thought to have contributed to its eventual disappearance and extinction by 68AD.
m1J0P TIL about the massacre of Huta Pieniacka where soldiers of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS brutally murdered more than a thousand ethnic Poles
N7DjE TIL ants nurse their wounded comrades after a raid. And if they deem themselves too deeply wounded they'll refuse treatment so they can tend to other ants with higher chances of survival.