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TIL Rum was a defacto currency in Australia

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4X0Ro TIL while researching Rube Goldberg machines, that there was a comic strip called "Boob McNutt" made by Rube Goldberg himself, which ran from 1918 to 1934.
M7X0B TIL Iran is the only country where it’s legal to sell your organs, so demand always meets supply. A kidney is worth $231 USD and the government contributes part of the cost.
NNRM TIL there is a fake propaganda news agency probably funded by the Russian government at ~USD 400k per month. Called the “Internet Research Agency”, it is run out of Russia and makes millions of fake posts and comments round the world against enemies of Russia….. (including the USA).
PYrXw TIL of Viper. A rapper that released a full album a day for almost a full year in 2014. To date he's released over 1500 albums, although only 15 of those actually consist of original material.
4kVJa TIL 196 workers died during the construction of the 5-mile Hoosac railway Tunnel due to accidents