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TIL 90 percent of U.S. bills carry traces of cocaine

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6Eepl TIL of the World's Biggest Liar event, an annual competition for telling lies held in Cumbria, England. Competitors have five minutes to tell the most convincing lie they can, and politicians and lawyers are banned because "they are judged to be too skilled at telling porkies."

LkE5Z TIL 90 percent of all large fish have disappeared from the world's oceans in the past half century

nNYd TIL David Lunt was shot through the skull and brain by a revolver and not only lived after the shot, but also felt no pain from it. He died 67 days later and his autopsy revealed that the gunshot was what killed him. Coroners still don’t know how Lunt survived for so long and felt no pain.

78AM TIL that Rwanda is the only country in the world with a female majority in parliament

6Eexw TIL Sarah Knauss, a supercentenarian and oldest ever American, lived for more than 119 years. She died in 1999 on the 30th of December, just 2 days shy of the year 2000.