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TIL a man accidently threw away a hard drive holding 7500 bitcoins, which would have been worth $9M at its height, or $4.5M today

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VMPY4 TIL over 8,000 pieces of music were secretly created in Nazi concentration camps; including symphonies, operas, and songs scribbled on everything from food wrappings to potato sacks. One prisoner composed an entire symphony on toilet paper using the charcoal given to him as dysentery medicine.
oA1L TIL only 64.4% of American law school graduates are employed at a job that requires a law degree and bar passage.
D1mkV TIL the faces on Mount Rushmore are only 60ft tall.
YYwP TIL there have been over 2,000 nuclear bombs dropped on the world since 1945.
nvrY TIL that Harriet Tubman carried a gun with her on the Underground Railroad. If a runaway slave threatened to give up and go back to the plantation, she would point the gun at him and threaten to shoot him dead.