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TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cold, hard, cash were flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.

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b6ZrQ TIL a residnece st 220 Central Park South was sold in 2019 for nearly $240 million, the most expensive home sold anywhere in the United States
8X7Z TIL That there was a plan to overthrow the United States government for its crimes upon the native Mexican and Indigenous population as well as the brutal forced slavery upon Africans in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
NXvmJ TIL that a Peppa Pig episode was banned in Australia for saying there's no need to be afraid of scary-looking insects. In the episode the dad tells his daughter that spiders are "very very small" and "can't hurt you".
x6EBb TIL Nichelle Nichols wanted to leave Star Trek for Broadway and informed the producer. That weekend, she met Martin Luther King who said she was a role model and Star Trek was the only show he watched his kids stay up to watch. She changed her mind, and when the producer learned why, he teared up
waE TIL the creator of Calvin and Hobbes, who after the comic’s end became a recluse and evaded interviews and fans, revealed new art after a 16 year absence (an oil painting) to support a cartoonist with Parkinson’s.