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TIL Abraham Lincoln authorized the creation of the Secret Service whose original purpose was to investigate counterfeit money which accounted for almost half of all US currency. He was shot the same day.

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GA9D5 TIL That 38% of world wide unprovoked shark attacks occur in Florida.
NVxQ TIL M&M’s were originally created to allow easy transport of chocolate to the military
b9xEj TIL that Tic Tacs actually have sugar in them, but because the serving size (1 tic tac) weighs less than 0.5 grams, the amount of sugar rounds to zero.
4km4a TIL the biggest surrender in war history since WWII was on December 16 1971, when the chief of Pakistani forces, General AA Khan Niazi, along with 93,000 troops, surrendered unconditionally before the Indian military. India repatriated all of them by 1973.
GAAL4 TIL male testicles are always visibly moving due to responses to temperature and arousal changes.