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TIL that in 1933-34, with immense pressure on banks, the city of Detroit printed their own banknotes to allow employees to be paid, as well as utilities.

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XE74E TIL Wrigley’s was originally a soap company that gifted baking powder with their soap. The baking powder became more popular than the soap so they switched to selling baking powder with chewing gum as a gift. The gum became more popular than the baking powder so the company switched to selling gum.
PY9AV TIL FOX only averaged a couple of thousand viewers per day in the UK. It was pulled off the air because it was not commercially viable.
a8VGN TIL that Mattiedna Johnson, born to Mississippi sharecroppers in 1918, used techniques she’d used to make things like butter, jam and soap on her childhood farm to develop techniques to capture and preserve molds for research that eventually helped in the development of drugs to fight scarlet fever.
e604 TIL Europeans who are descended from survivors of the Black Death and smallpox can have an immunity to HIV/AIDS.
K5a9 TIL math dyslexia is a real, diagnosable condition called dyscalculia.