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TIL that although Bob Marley wrote No Woman, No Cry, he credited his friend Vincent Ford as a co-songwriter so the royalties would fund Ford’s soup kitchen in Kingston, Jamaica.

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BgOZr TIL that US law allows coins worth as little as one mill (1/10th of a cent) to be minted. Half-cent coins were minted until the 1850s, and some states issued mill tokens through the 1960s printed on tin, aluminum, plastic or paper.
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