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TIL that despite being one of the most popular musicians of the modern era, Bruce Springsteen has never had an Number 1 record in America

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R7Zl7 TIL that plastic bags wind up at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
1a6XW TIL the United States Treasury used to print 5 denominations of money larger than $100. They were used mostly as government transactions, and were all discontinued in 1969. It is illegal to be in posession of a $100,000 bill, a Gold Certificate, due to Executive Order 6102.
0Q7R TIL that a bullet fired from a rifled barrel spins at 300,000RPM (5000 rotations per second)
8aOQ8 TIL that Ireland, New Zealand, Iceland, Greenland, and Antarctica are the only places on Earth that do not have any native snakes.
VMmZD TIL that France still has a territory in the Canadian Maritimes.