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TIL Issac Newton roamed the streets as anti-counterfeit coin vigilante, then invented the ridges on coins to reduce fraud currency

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xVLXb TIL in 1991, the little plastic ball in cans of Guinness won the Queens Award for Technological Advancement, beating the Internet and Email.
D16e TIL that a study was done that proved that athletes are overall happier with a bronze medal than a silver.
wXWE TIL the new Canadian 100 dollar bill smells like maple syrup
9wKDX TIL in 1958 a military plane accidentally dropped an Atom Bomb on a farm near Florence, South Carolina. The nuclear reaction didn't occur, but there was still enough explosive to create a 25 foot crater!
Z8bbQ TIL the mountains on the Coors Light can are an actual mountain range in the Colorado Rockies, Wilson Peak