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TIL The Federal Reserve removes and shreds 5000+ tons of paper currency each year.

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8a7YL TIL that the International Red Cross visited the Concentration Camp Theresienstadt during WWII and - in a complete failure to recognize that the Nazis faked everything - reported life there being nearly "normal". 33,000 people died in Theresienstadt.
0dQjj TIL 50-200 airway fires, or oxygen/anesthesia combustion in the patient's trachea, occur each year in the United States
OO54 TIL after Myers had completed providing the voice for Shrek, and after an rough cut of the film, he asked to re-record all of his lines in a Scottish accent. It was so good they took $4m worth of animation out and did it again.
KYwl4 TIL: The World Meteorological Organization, which names storms in alphabetical order, will reuse names every 6 years, unless a storm is exceptionally damaging or deadly.
gMLdX TIL that all US mailboxes are essentially federal property, even if you buy and install them yourself.