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TIL the US Treasury’s Mutilated Currency Division literally burns (damaged) money to help heat their building

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R7BPj TIL that fans dont make the room colder, they make you colder by evaporating your sweat
N75eQ TIL that Adolf Hitler's remains were exhumed in the 1970s and incinerated. The ashes were flushed into the city's sewage system
VBGPZ TIL Nauru has the highest obesity rate in the world (94.5% overweight, 71.7% obese), caused by the rapid adoption of Western diets after the phosphate mining boom. Traditional diets of fresh fish and vegetables were replaced by processed foods—with devastating health effects.
eG84 TIL at the 1932 Olympics, the 3,000-metre steeplechase was run over 3,460 metres because an official lost count of the number of laps
nGeB TIL the liver is the only human internal organ able to regenerate itself; as little as 25% can regenerate back into a whole liver