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TIL that the heist in Die Hard with a Vengance was so plausible that the FBI questioned the screenwriter leading to the Federal Reserve changing their security protocal.

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p85bN TIL In 1840 the word OK was prominence as achieved national one predecessor was as Ow
OGAX7 TIL that Earth is the most dense planet in the Solar System while Saturn, the least dense planet, has a density lower than water
Zmgo TIL a man once required surgery for what doctors call “penile fracture” after “running across the room and trying to penetrate his wife with a flying leap.”
6E7D8 TIL that one of the documents the US Constitution is predominantly modeled after is the Iroquois Constitution, an extremely sophisticated and logically consistent document that governed the 5 Native American tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people.
5gAD TIL Former Liberian President, Charles King, is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history, having won the 1927 election with 234,000 votes in a country with 15,000 registered voters