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TIL it costs the US government 3.69 cents to make a penny. The cost to make a nickel is 13.78 cents.

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DXLe TIL that “Schoolhouse Rock!” was produced because the creator noticed one of his sons, who was having trouble in school remembering the multiplication tables, knew the lyrics to then-current rock songs.
Z0QG [TIL] …In Tolkien’s books, Narya (one of the Rings of Power) was owned by Gandalf. In addition, it was explained as, “with it you may rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill.” Oh, and it made him pretty much immortal.
P1aVZ TIL about the Battle of the Atlantic during WWII. “In the first four months of 1942, German U-boats ravaged the shipping lanes off North Carolina, sinking almost 40 ships during that period. It is an often overlooked piece of American history.”
bgp4 TIL Dinka tribesmen of Sudan sometimes rupture their stomachs by overeating in preparation for ‘fat-man’ contests. Deaths this way are considered an honorble way to die.
XEVrQ TIL of August Natterer, who, on April Fool's Day 1907, had a pivotal hallucination of the Doomsday, during which "10,000 images flashed by in half an hour". He spent the rest of his life in a mental institution, where he became a prolific painter, attempting to capture his hallucination.