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TIL that all U.S. Treasurers since 1949 have been women.
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TIL during WWII, Girl Scouts couldn't sell cookies because many of the ingredients needed were being rationed to the military. In light of this some of them sold Girl Scout calendars, or collected and sold scrap metal.
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TIL that The first known book to be printed with removable metal type is a Buddhist treatise printed in Korea in 1377, seventy-eight years before the Gutenberg Bible.
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TIL David Prowse (Darth Vader) was offered one of two roles in Star Wars by George Lucas. The first was Chewbacca. The second was the villain. Before Lucas had a chance to explain the role, Prowse accepted it. Why? Because according to him people never forget the villain.
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Today I learned that many of the men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.
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TIL in 2012, a man attempted to pay his traffic ticket with 137 origami dollar bills shaped as pigs, inside of 2 doughnut boxes. The clerk called in police, who required him to unfold every single one to pay his ticket. The event was regarded by the ticketed man as, "The Great Dollar Pig Massacre.".