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TIL Last year banks collected $30 billion in overdraft Fees - Another way of saying that is collecting 30 Billion from people without any money.

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1aWeD TIL in response to the moral panic surrounding violent video games, Penn & Teller released “Desert Bus” for the Sega CD. In the game, you drive a bus going 45 MPH from Tuscon to Las Vegas in a straight line for 8 hours.
LQyov TIL LabCorp owns a fleet of planes and has the call sign SKYLAB
5Z6n TIL The US Government will honor all money produced by the US since 1861, with the only exception being a series of 1900 $10,000 bills which were literally thrown out of a window during a fire. They are currently considered to be stolen goods.
ebk4 TIL “bald-faced lie” and “bold-faced lie” are both correct; the original phrase is “barefaced lie,” but ‘bare’ meant brave or bold at the time.
0wJYL TIL of Ingeborg Rapoport. In 2015, 74 years after being denied her Ph.D by the Nazis for being Jewish, she successfully defended her dissertation and received her doctorate from the University of Hamburg at the age of 102, making her the oldest person ever to receive one.