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TIL in 1942 United States Military printed and distributed money with the words "HAWAII" over the currency. This way, if the islands were invaded, the currency would become obsolete and not effect the mainland economy.

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8mYL TIL the US Government has spent more on a single plane than 10 years of funding for the NIH
dNgK TIL the producers of The Simpsons considered aborting the series if the second episode’s animation turned out as bad as the first, which was so appalling that after seeing it for the first time, they had to redo 70% of before it could go to air.
9dZM TIL that the film ‘Waterloo’ had so many extras in the battle scene that the director was in command of the 7th largest army in the world
0wDmp TIL Industrial designer Sara Little Turnbull was hired in 1958 by 3M to design a new bra cup. She ended up designing the N95 respirator.
7Vbr TIL that it’s possible to upgrade through every major version of Windows, from 1.0 to Windows 7 (always upgrading, no clean install)