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TIL 1.7 million packages are stolen from US porches every day

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XEL5E TIL that Andrew Jackson openly opposed paper money, instead preferring gold and silver coins as currency. In his farewell address he cautioned the public on the national bank. Ironic that his portrait has lived on the $20 since 1928, replacing Grover Cleveland.
m1PaP TIL Latin and Irish have no words for "yes" or "no"
GYOxG TIL that Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women," never actually wanted to write the book. She thought of the genre as "moral pap for the young," and only decided to write this novel in order to help her father.
16rbP TIL: when awarding the 1987 Nobel prize in chemistry to a dr. Donald Cram, the committee accidentally phoned up Donald Cram, a Californian carpet cleaner with the same name.
epDYD TIL about an innocent man on death row