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TIL Sarcasm improves your problem solving ability

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W7ZPL TIL the entire city of Chicago was physically lifted several feet in the 1850s/60s with people living, working, and walking through the streets like it was completely normal.
dDRj7 TIL the Royal Canadian Mint was making limited silver coins in the shapes of dinosaurs
69YLW TIL that the French had for the best part of 5 centuries a very lucrative salt tax. So much so that at some point it was as valuable to France, as the American silver mines were to Spain (according to Cardinal Richelieu)
p7bZ TIL that Singapore (with a fertility rate of 0.79) held a “National Night” in 2012 designed to encourage couples to “create a population spurt” by “letting their patriotism explode!”
D10Ae TIL in a 1999 episode of Hollywood Squares the contestants got so many questions wrong that the episode only lasted a single round, to the point Gilbert Gottfried began berating them.