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Til Raccoons and cats not only get along, there have been hybrids between the two.

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D1N5V TIL the $2 bill makes up 1% of currency circulation. Its scarcity in daily use has confused some merchants who believe the bill to be fake. A 13 year-old girl in Texas was detained by Police when she tried to pay for her school lunch w/a $2 bill, b/c the school’s counterfeit pen wouldn’t work on it.
lMeK TIL that human semen has health beneficial properties including vitamins, increasing fertility in women and contains mood-elevating hormones.
nANY TIL that many Japanese women are embarrassed when using the toilet so they would run the water or flush a lot which wasted water. In the 1980’s a sound device started being used that played the sound without actually needing to flush. This saved water and is now standard on most public bathrooms.
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