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TIL it costs approximately 1.6 cents to make 1 penny, as a result the mint loses around $55 million just on the production of these coins

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4rJN TIL perfume is located at the front of department stores in part because department-store pioneer Harry Selfridge placed his there to mask the odors of manure and exhaust from the street.
87oL TIL the first and the last British soldiers to die in WWI are coincidentally buried only 15 feet apart. In the 4 year period between their deaths, nearly a million other British/Commonwealth troops died.
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