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TIL that in the US a check does not need to be written on a bank check. It can be written on anything (including clothing) and legally be cashed as long as it includes the proper information.

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OGj7a TIL that Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother once gave an "anti-toast" to people she disliked, such as dictator Idi Amin, politician Tony Benn, and Jimmy Carter. Carter kissed her on the lips at a function in 1977, and Elizabeth was insulted, as he was the first man since her husband died to do that.
Lmjr TIL On May 25th, 2015 a man discovered an orphaned baby moose in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. When he reported the calf to local authorities they shot the baby and blew up the carcasses of it, it’s dead mother and sibling to prevent grizzly bears from being drawn to the area.
5Y1ak TIL: Lightning can, and commonly does strike during a snowstorm. this phenomenon is known as “thundersnow.”
5GAR TIL that map makers fabricate streets and geographical landmarks, called “Trap Streets,” to catch copyright violators.
kOkX1 TIL that Sergio De Simone, a 7 yo child, was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz and was then sent to Neuengamme camp to be experimented on by nazi doctors (under the promise to see his mother again). He was murdered in 1945 with other 20 kids so that the Allies would not find proof of what was going on.