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TIL that from 2003 to 2008 over $40 Billions in cash was flown from the Federal Reserve to Baghdad. Now nobody knows what happened to the money.

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W7OOA TIL DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville | Spain
PYGLJ TIL: Playing narrative based video games enhances literacy
gMLm7 TIL about the "Mad Hatterpillar" Uraba lugens, the gum-leaf skeletoniser, Nicknamed the mad hatterpillar because of its distinctive exoskeletal feature. Every time it sheds the head portion of its exoskeleton, stays attached creating a stack of increasingly large heads!
k6am TIL that the U.S. government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance, defined as the most dangerous category. Cocaine and meth are placed in the less dangerous Schedule 2.
VZd4 TIL Texas is so expansive that El Paso, in the western corner of the state, is closer to San Diego, California than to Houston.