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TIL Saddam Hussein offered to step down to exile from the Iraqi government in 2003 prior to the invasion if he was allowed to keep USD $1 Billion

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6EXGX TIL An estimated two-thirds of all US $100 bills are held outside the US
mx5jp TIL that lemons, limes and most of the other citrus fruits we eat do not occur naturally in the wild - they are the result of generations of interbreeding between various combinations of the four "original" citrus fruits
aw91b TIL At one point in the 1990s, 50% of all CDs produced worldwide were for AOL.
Egdp7 TIL: there was a special edition Playstation 2 made for Need For Speed in the form of a car. You even had to use car keys in order to turn on the console! The game DVD's go in the car hood.
6yo8 TIL the lobster chowder given to the cast and crew of Titanic on the last night of filming was drugged with PCP (Angel dust)