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TIL pennies and nickels cost more to produce than their face value. The United States has lost nearly half a billion dollars minting pennies and nickels over the past 3 years(2021-2023).

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pYNRe TIL Cruachan Hydroelectric Power Station pumps water uphill at night to release and generate electricity during the day
GYA5j TIL Hulk Hogan was 6'7" but after 30 years of wrestling he dropped to 6'4".
Z8Anp TIL of Jack Van Der Geest- a Dutch resistance fighter who was one of eight people to escape from Buchenwald. Pretending to be dead, at 80 lbs. he hid in a pile of bodies for 11 hours before killing a Nazi, stealing his uniform and a motorcycle to escape.
DQ54j TIL That the large Solar Storms of 1972 caused numerous detonations of U.S. naval mines in North Vietnam
R54RQ TIL of Cordell Jackson, who (among other things) is thought to be the first woman to produce, engineer, arrange and promote music on her own rock and roll music label.