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TIL a $5 bill featuring Santa Claus was once legal tender

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kOD77 TIL about "Deafheads" who held balloons against their bodies in order to hear/feel the music at Grateful Dead concerts
6yyW TIL after 9/11, Iran held a minute of silence, and 60,000 Iranians attended a candlelight vigil for the citizens of their enemy. Many other countries hostile to the US set aside their difference to pay respect to the scale of the tragedy.
D1vXP TIL Franklin Delano Roosevelt was related to 11 of the U.S Presidents, 5 by blood, and 6 through marriage
a790 TIL in the past 100 years, 80% of the biomass of fish in the world’s oceans has been lost.
r5Z0 TIL the wheel was invented thousands of years after boats, woven cloth, rope, sewing needles, baskets and even the flute.