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TIL that all the paper bags used in movies and television are specially made prop bags designed to not make any noise

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R78d6 TIL it's legal in New York to own a monkey if you're paralyzed and the monkey is trained to perform household tasks for you
78l6b TIL there was a 22-percent increase in productivity among workers who had been given glasses and those over 50, productivity increased by nearly 32 percent.
KPaa TIL: Augustus Caesar was rich enough that he could pay off every single student loan in the US, Pay off all credit card debt for every citizen in the US, All debt held by US states to the federal government, Pay of the debt of the lowest owing 120* countries and still be the richest man alive today
YplWA TIL that the common ancestor of all fish had lungs, and that modern swim bladders in most fish are actually highly-derived lungs. In more oxygen-poor times hundreds of millions of years ago, being able to gulp down oxygen, which was more plentiful in air, was a huge evolutionary advantage.
9w7wQ TIL In the 1920s John Factor earned millions from fraud in Britian before escaping to Monaco where he broke the bank by rigging the tables. Factor escaped to the United States where he eventually received a pardon from President Kennedy, Factor was Kennedy's biggest donator.