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TIL: There used to be a three-cent piece called the "trime."

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OolA7 TIL of "A Village Fair with a Church Behind": a 1643 painting by Isack van Ostade owned by Queen Elizabeth II. When conservators cleaned the painting, they discovered that a bush in the foreground had been painted over the original around 1903; they removed the bush which revealed a pooping man.
eP75 TIL that the most profitable item on McDonald’s menu is its fountain drink. It costs between 13 and 18 cents to produce a drink. Therefore, when you buy a fountain drink for $1.00, they are gaining more than 80% profit per fountain drink.
D1dXj TIL about Alexander Bogdanov, a Russian physician who experimented with blood transfusion to gain eternal youth. He died after injecting himself with blood from a student infected with malaria and tuberculosis, who also may have been the wrong blood type.
4oO6 TIL that during Clinton’s presidency, then Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan forced Clinton to reduce the deficit by threatening interest rate hikes. Greenspan later wrote in his book about how he singlehandedly put a stop to Clinton’s progressive policies.
a5w0 TIL that the man who designed Saddam Hussein’s bunker was the grandson of the woman who designed Adolf Hitler’s bunker.