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TIL It has been reported that besides Abe Lincoln, the ghosts of William Henry Harrison, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, and Thomas Jefferson also haunt the White House. Lincoln’s ghost hasn’t been seen since the 1980’s.

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aj5M TIL The Canadian $1,000 bill was retired on May 12, 2000, for being mostly used in criminal transactions, any $1,000 note deposited at a bank is destroyed, although the bills — nicknamed “pinkies” by gangsters because of the pinkish-purple ink — remain legal tender.
ANwK7 TIL the planet Mercury has a comet-like tail 15-million miles (24 million kms) long. The tail is made of sodium atoms blasted off of the surface of the planet by the Sun and small meteorite impacts. The tail is very faint, invisible to the naked eye.
GYJG1 TIL Lisa Nowak operated the robotic arm on the International Space Station and also became the first astronaut ever to be arrested. She is remembered for wearing maximum-absorption garments—government-issued astronaut diapers—during her 950-mile drive from Houston to Orlando
DQ8yP TIL in 2020 Burger King released a time-lapse ad showing a Whopper slowly collapsing into a furry mold over 34 days. The Moldy Whopper campaign achieved around 8.4B organic media impressions and 88% were positive. It reached a level of awareness 50% higher than BK's $5 million 2019 Super Bowl ad.
pa5N TIL that an Oregon survey found that panhandlers outside of WalMart were making more than the employees working inside.