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TIL Honey Nut Cheerios do not, in fact, contain Nuts.
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TIL in 2009, scientists discovered that a single, ant mega-colony had colonized much of the world on a scale rivaled only by human civilization, including 1 super colony spanning 3,700 miles along the Mediterranean coast.
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TIL a man named Ronald Macdonald robbed a Wendy’s in 2005
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TIL that a janitor from Chicago wrote over six years a 15,145-page fantasy manuscript with over 300 watercolor illustrations called “In the Realms of the Unreal”, which was only discovered after his death.
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TIL why coins have ridges on the sides... Criminals in the 1700s saw they could make a good profit by filing shavings from the sides of gold and silver coins. Today’s coins contain no precious metals but, you’ll still find those ridges to make them distinguishable for visually impaired people.
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TIL Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Elaine from Seinfeld) is the 4th wealthiest celebrity with a net worth of $3 billion, just under Steven Spielberg and George Lucas. She has nearly twice as much money as Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David combined.