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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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pYyyG TIL that the Stanley Cup is the oldest existing trophy to be awarded professionally in North America, commissioned in 1892 by its namesake the Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley of Preston, 16th Earl of Derby
eVV4 TIL perfumed ointment was found in King Tut’s tomb. It was analyzed and there is a recipe to duplicate it accurately. If you have the resources, you can smell like an Egyptian King.
LnKp TIL about a protest in a village in Turkey. The women were fed up with walking to get water, so they withheld sex from their husbands until they fixed the water line. They got what they wanted in one month.
VBMDm TIL the Marshall Islands is the only sovereign nation not to have had a national soccer team.
9M16 TIL that “liquid breathing” is possible with a liquid called Perfluorocarbon