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TIL That the Largest Denomination of U.S. Currency Was the $100,000 Bill

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78bE7 TIL that the Aztecs, who lived on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco, would consume a particular type of fly as a staple high protein food source. The water fly, called ahuautle, was eaten in tortillas, toasted, and mashed into baked cakes.
n8X9 TIL Michael Cera played the voice of “Brother Bear” in the children show “The Berenstain Bears.”
N7dGE TIL that during the 2000 US census, more than 87,000 Americans listed their home state as their ancestry. Texas had the most, with over 32,000.
YpXZP TIL : British Submarines carry the Jolly Rodger because a First Lord Sea Admiral said that submarines are ""underhanded, unfair, and damned un-English" and their sailors should be hanged as Pirates
GjJ4 TIL There is a long-term care facility in the Netherlands that allows college students to stay for free in exchange for 30 hours of volunteer per month. When students come home from a class, concert, or party, they share those experiences with their elderly neighbors, some of whom are over 90