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TIL oil isn’t made of dinosaur fossils.

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YpVX7 TIL that Helen Keller, an American author who was deaf and blind, could distinguish people by the vibration of their footsteps
6EMLX TIL The world’s most expensive coffee is from beans cycled through an Indonesian monkey’s digestive system.
Rjm6 TIL In 2011, a Supreme Court case decided that prisoners in a for-profit prison couldn’t sue anybody if their right from cruel and unusual punishment was violated, as it’s a corporation doing the cruel and unusual punishing, not the government.
oRm1K TIl that what we currently know as the dollar sign ($) was originally used as an abbreviation of "pesos", the currency used in several former Spanish colonies. The dollar originated from the peso, or "Spanish dollar", in the 18th century.
e0Vvk TIL that a tower was built on the Florida Keys in 1929 and filled with bats to control the mosquito problem. The bats flew away, never to return, and the tower since toppled during Hurricane Irma.