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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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NAeQ TIL that the city of Fairbanks, Alaska holds the world’s largest rechargeable battery, which powers the whole city during outages.
LQLrr TIL that "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna & Barbera was the first animated series to win an Emmy Award as an "Outstanding Achievement in the field of Children's Programming". It won the award in 1960.
mxGYo TIL in 1976, Barry Kidston, a 23-year-old chemistry graduate student in Maryland, US, synthesized MPPP with MPTP as a major impurity, and self-injected the result. Within three days he began exhibiting symptoms of Parkinson's disease
d8LXB TIL in January 2019, a hacker had gained access to over 4000 Nest security cameras. He spoke to the people via the camera, urging them to subscribe to a famous YouTuber.
ANMOg TIL the bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing took an estimated inflation-adjusted $10 000 to produce