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

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OGyx6 TIL that before he played Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi played a W.H.O. Doctor (World War Z, 2013)
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Ko16 TIL someone made a sequel to “American Psycho” where a girl (Mila Kunis) kills Bateman and then stalks the detective chasing him (William Shater).
4X7no TIL fried brain sandwiches used to be a popular dish in the St. Louis area. They are still a local delicacy in Evansville, Indiana despite stigma associated with mad cow disease (many restaurants replaced cow with pig brains)
AN7g TIL that the last place to rejoin the Union after the American Civil War was a small town in upstate New York. In 1861, the town voted 80-45 to secede, but was not included in Reconstruction and didn’t vote to rejoin the Union until 1946.