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TIL that the painting of George Washington used on the dollar bill was never completed.

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R7769 TIL rescuers had to cut a (dead) woman in half with a chainsaw in order to amputate the leg of a young boy trapped in rubble of the collapsed I-880 overpass following the 1989 SF earthquake
mG1v TIL the Roman emperor Nero kicked his pregnant wife to death and then felt so bad about it that he found a young boy that looked uncannily like her, had him castrated and married him.
Ypb4d TIL Two 25m, 15,000 year old Mexican mammoth traps contained the bones of at least 14 mammoths, each of which had their left shoulder removed. We don’t know why.
bE10 TIL it is estimated that black bears’ sense of smell is about seven times greater than a bloodhound’s.
9w8J7 TIL of Operation Bernhard when the nazis counterfeited £134 610 810 during WWII and damaged the British economy in the years afterward