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TIL a $100 dollar bill costs the government just ¢12.6 to make

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QJEPL TIL you weigh measurably less when the moon is directly above you
pYmb TIL Coolio wrote a book called “Cookin’ With Coolio” including the chapters “SaladEatin Bitches,” “Appetizers for That Ass,” and “It’s Hard Out Here for a Shrimp.”
v14XK TIL that Avatar The Last Airbender’s episode, “Lake Laogai” was inspired by China’s “Laogai System” in the 1950s. The Communist Party detained those deemed disruptive to political stability to transform them to conform to socialist ideals through forced labor and political indoctrination.
7rplM TIL: The Queen owns all the sturgeons, whales and dolphins in the waters within 3 miles from the UK
8aZKb TIL that at one point the Chicago River was so dirty from the city’s waste that it made the water from Lake Michigan undrinkable. To remedy this Chicago reversed the direction of its river away from the lake and toward the Mississippi River