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TIL that between 2007 and 2009, Zimbabwe’s currency reached an inflation rate of 79,000,000,000%, with the government printing 100 Billion dollar bills to keep up.

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6ELKm TIL In 2015, Hashima Island was added to the UNESCO WHC as part of the Meiji Revolution, but was also the site of Korean forced labor. Korea withdrew its opposition after Japan's promise to take measures to remember victims. Immediately after approval, the Japanese FM publicly denied forced labor.
b9yka TIL Ryan Newman lead a campaign that may have just saved his own life. Newman crashed badly at the Daytona 500 back in 2003 prompting him to push for a reinforced bar across the windshield. In 2009 it became a regulation in NASCAR commonly referred to as the “Newman bar”.
Ngve TIL Brach’s sells enough candy corn each year to circle the earth 4.25 times if the kernels were laid end to end.
5YmEB TIL that if you add 250ml of water to 250ml of alcohol, you get less than 500ml of liquid. This is due to strong hydrogen bonding between the different molecules drawing them close together, and that ethanol molecules are smaller than water molecules, so they fill in the spaces between the water.
wQmE TIL producers of Animal House offered Donald Sutherland a fee of either 2% of the film’s gross or $35,000. Sutherland had little faith in the movie so he took the $35,000 resulting in a loss of $2.8 million, or upward of $10 million after inflation.