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TIL "In God We Trust" first appeared on US money in 1864 as a political ploy by the North to tell the South that God was on their side during the Civil War.

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QJW1E TIL There is a rare condition called Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) that only around 60 people in the world are known to have. This condition makes the person remember nearly every day in their life in exact details.
KYyPB TIL that, as a gas giant, Saturn doesn’t have a true surface. The planet is mostly gases and liquids deeper down. While a spacecraft couldn't land on Saturn, it wouldn’t be able to fly through it. The extreme pressures and temperatures would vaporize any spacecraft trying to fly into the planet.
JYRWm TIL that when Rudolph Hess, righthand man to Adolf Hitler, flew on an apparently unsanctioned peace mission to Great Britain in 1941, the German public was quickly told that Hess suffered from mental disturbance and hallucinations.
VlR4 TIL that Steve Jobs was really unhygienic: he thought that by eating only fruit the need to shower was eliminated, so he stopped showering. When he worked for Atari, his boss assigned him the night shift so that he wouldn’t need to interact with other people.
VLyB TIL That in 2008 a shark gave birth without having sex. This is the second recorded case of asexual reproduction in sharks.