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TIL the IRS cannot cash single checks (including cashier's checks) for $100 million dollars or more.

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ydkw TIL John Henry’s famous race against the steam drill really did happen in 1870. He was able to win because the machine kept getting hung up and lost time.
pwRp TIL, finally, that the name Bastian screams for the Empress at the end of The Neverending Story film is “Moonchild”…
nW5JW TIL Les Misérables was not set during the French Revolution and instead a smaller insurrection known as The June Rebellion, or the Paris Uprising of 1832
6Ly8 TIL that the founder of the modern frozen food industry, Clarence Birdseye, was inspired when ice fishing in Labrador, Canada, in -40°C weather. He discovered that the fish he caught froze almost instantly and tasted fresh afterwards unlike the slowly frozen seafood sold in New York.
Nm5N TIL that the earliest surviving depiction of Jesus portrays him as a donkey on a cross.