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TIL Canada's "loonie" $1 dollar coin was supposed to show a canoe, but a discount courier was used to save $43.50, and the dies were stolen.

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1ax98 TIL about Chris Sevier, a Utah County man who sued the county commissioner for refusing to issue a marriage license for Sevier and his computer.
YJDG TIL that in developing countries, the use of birth control has lowered maternal deaths by 43%, and if full demand were met it could be reduced by as much as 73%.
W4bY TIL that we actually have photographs showing entire star systems being warped in space-time by immense gravitational force. These Gravitational Lenses appear to us a circular bubble of stars and galaxies, and prove Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity.
KaV4 TIL in 1995 a Virginia inmate sued himself for $5 million for violating his own civil rights by getting drunk and getting arrested. The judge dismissed the case but congratulated the man on his “innovative approach to civil rights litigation.”
nePVP TIL Michelin are so secretive about their tires that they don't patent the rubber compound they use so it can't be copied.