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TIL there were once $100,000 notes in circulation that are still considered legal tender today

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VMdMQ TIL today's Earth might not be habitable today had it not been for the 1987 Montreal Protocol
WkEpB TIL about renowned British military surgeon James Barry, a pioneer in the medical field with a career spanning over 50 years. After his death in 1865 the nurse prepping his body for burial noted female anatomy and stretch marks from pregnancy. Barry had been born a woman named Margaret Ann Bulkley.
VB0OB TIL : When Queen Elizabeth visited the set of "Game of Thrones" she refused to sit on the Iron Throne because there is a law disallowing her from sitting on a foreign throne.
16ArV TIL after a Jewish six-year-old was taken away from his parents by priests, people involved tried to avoid returning him by publicly claiming the child had learned the catechism perfectly within a few days & was claiming "I am baptized and my father is the Pope."
Jo4v TIL Homer’s classic epics, The Iliad and The Odyssey, are only part of an eight story saga. The remaining parts have been lost to the ages.