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TIL I haven’t used cash in so long that the main penny circulating no longer has the Lincoln Memorial on the back.

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bxx0 TIL of Draco, the Ancient Greek legislator who wrote the first code of law in Athens. Over time his laws were seen as increasingly harsh and punitive, which is why we say a law is “draconian” when the punishment is too extreme for the crime.
OG0PR TIL at the end of hostilities during WW1, a German U-boat surrendered and was supposed to be towed to France, but the tow cable snapped and the submarine washed up on a beach in Hastings, UK. Thousands of tourists visited to see her until she was broken up in 1921.
m1peO TIL that on May 26, 2022, the last convicted Salem witch was officially exonerated, 329 years after she had been found guilty, after pressure from schoolchildren who discovered the anomaly which had excluded Elizabeth Johnson Jr's name from the Massachusetts legislature act exonerating all others.
kOoj1 TIL in 1984, a pipe-fitter for a uranium core processing plant in Ohio was discovered in a processing furnace. At the time the plant was discovered dumping a massive amount of radioactive waste into the atmosphere. Co-workers of the deceased worker suspected he was a whistleblower and was murdered.
ne0YW TIL That Finland was ranked as the World's Happiest Country in 2019 by CNN