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TIL the $2 bill makes up 1% of currency circulation. Its scarcity in daily use has confused some merchants who believe the bill to be fake. A 13 year-old girl in Texas was detained by Police when she tried to pay for her school lunch w/a $2 bill, b/c the school’s counterfeit pen wouldn’t work on it.

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R7bZl TIL one of the last wishes of Terry Pratchet, author of the Discworld Universe, was to have all his unfinished works crushed by a steamroller. The author’s wishes were fulfilled in 2015 when he passed from Alzheimer’s and the reason for it was so his work wasn’t mishandled after his death.
l7LVN TIL in Finland, molybdomancy, or predicting future through the shape of molten tin, is a tradition for New Year's Eve
KbA6 TIL that a Swedish man survived for two months in a car that had been snowed over. He ate only snow, and survived due a “igloo effect”.
x6XZ0 TIL the sack of Constantinople in 1453 and subsequent closure of the Silk Road by the Ottoman Empire was a main motivator of Europe to seek a western route to Asia
980p TIL letting a cut “get air,” or “breathe,” is actually the wrong thing to do to heal it.