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TIL that 92% of all US currency has traces of cocaine on paper currency.

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nWo57 TIL: In the 1960s, MIT helped the US military to launch a cloud of 1.4 billion inch long antennas into orbit, totaling a length of 15,909 miles in length.
ADpAw TIL that in the Great Depression, there was a fleet of "book women" who delivered books, regardless of weather, to rural communities in Appalachia. These women would ride 100-120 miles every week on horseback, traversing dangerous terrain, to ensure that their readers received their books on time.
p00e TIL that although Jewish people make up only 0.2% of the world’s population, they have won over 1/5 of the Nobel prizes since it first began.
LN79 TIL Kim Sa-rang, a 3-month-old Korean child, died from malnutrition after both her parents spent hours each day raising a virtual child on an online game, Prius Online.
YpBJ7 TIL That during the Berlin Blockade of 1948, US Air Force Pilot Gail Halvorsen dropped Candy & Chewing Gum with hand made parachutes for the Children of West Berlin. The Children would know it was Halvorsen, as when flying over Berlin, he would wiggle his wings side by side