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TIL State Dept considered lowering the fee to renounce US citizenship from $2350 to $450

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l6bB TIL around 762, the demand for books in Baghdad was so high that any traders who brought books were given the weight of the books in gold in return.
DJLD TIL that Abraham Lincoln is the only president in U.S. history to also have been a licensed bartender.
PYYAV TIL that in the 1960's, a Donald Duck cartoon was deemed 'prior art' and used to deny a patent for using foam balls to raise a ship from the water.