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TIL a Canadian polymer $20 bill costs 19 cents to manufacture

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epy94 TIL a finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company's CFO in a video conference call that included several other members of staff, all of whom were in fact deepfake recreations. Everyone he saw was fake.
woL4Y TIL The official rules of Ping Pong allows the ball to touch your paddle hand, which includes all fingers and hand area below the wrist. But players may not touch the ball with a non-paddle hand for any reason.
9wNZQ TIL MI6 believed Saddam Hussein was continuing to produce WMDs based on information provided by a false agent who based his reports using scenes from the movie The Rock
5VyVB TIL that there are an estimated 100 firefighters arrested for arson per year
B0mK TIL: Ibuprofen relieves women’s hurt feelings, but not men’s