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TIL that the population of Ireland still hasn’t returned to where it was before the Potato Famine

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695MX TIL An independent Northern counterfeiter named Samuel C. Upham made so much fake Southern money during the American Civil War that experts think it made up around 1-3% of the total currency supply of the Confederacy.
w66E TIL Swedish millionaire Johan Eliasch, who purchased 400,000 acres of the Amazon Rainforest, was fined £137 million for cutting down 237,000 trees in the Rainforest.
gr91b TIL that the original video for the Village People's YMCA did not have the iconic hand dance spelling out "YMCA." The dance was invented on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The original did have a gesture that looked like a Y at the appropriate place.
EgeAw TIL why Tom Wolfe wore a white suit. The pioneer of 'New Journalism' said that the unusual clothing caused others to see him as "a man from Mars, the man who didn't know anything and was eager to know", so talked freely to him. The white suit became Wolfe's trademark from 1962 to his death.
b6nP7 TIL 13 out of the top 15 SAT scoring states are run by Republicans