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TIL A penny costs 2.4 cents to manufacture.

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awn0A TIL that due to shortages penicillin was re-extracted from patients’ urine during World War II
M7XM7 TIL: Skegness the town on coast of Britan in Lincolnshire had a Monorail.
6mKm TIL that the color purple is the royal color because the dye was so expensive to make: “dye-makers had to crack open the snail’s shell, extract a purple-producing mucus and expose it to sunlight for a precise amount of time. It took as many as 250,000 mollusks to yield just one ounce of usable dye”
VBAXB TIL About John Spano who, in 1996, briefly controlled the NHL's New York Islanders. Described by NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman as "...the type of person we want as an owner" Spano was revealed to be a conman who was unable to pay for the team.
YpMxx TIL Monterey Jack was a real person, and owned the dairy that first mass-produced the cheese.