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TIL that the US is the only nation that prints all its currency in the same size and color, and that a court has ruled that this must change with the next currency redesign.

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yQxYe TIL The earliest recorded epidemic dates back to the Peloponnesian War, 430 BC. he ancient Greek historian Thucydides described the symptoms of a disease believed to be typhoid fever. Known as the Great Athenian Plague, it killed about 100,000 people, or two-thirds of the population there.
eOa4 TIL as many as two-thirds of the televised deals on Shark Tank do not go through.
KORB6 TIL pineapples are actually in a proto-carnivorous plant family called bromeliads. Water trapped in their crowns supports thriving mini-ecosystems, whose residents and their droppings are absorbed for nutrients (not energy) through their leaves, as most plants can actually do.
Z8K6G TIL that in 2006, the brakes failed on Joaquin Phoenix's car in Hollywood, and he flipped off the road. He was found by Werner Herzog, who stopped Phoenix from lighting a cigarette as gasoline leaked into the car cabin. Herzog broke the back windscreen, helped Phoenix out, and then went home.
JYe0k TIL that in the U.S. television stations east of the Mississippi River all have call signs starting with a "W" and ones to the west have call signs beginning with a "K". Dallas, Texas has both because of a weird rule when they moved the demarcation.