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TIL: Mavis Beacon is not a real person

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wRgo TIL There are nearly as many $100 bills as there are $1 bills in currency today, each about 6x as common as the $10 bill.
npa9 TIL that in oil-rich Azerbaijan people bathe in crude oil believing it improves their health
R5gW7 TIL of Benjaman Kyle, an amnesiac man discovered in 2004 who had no memories of his life and could not even recall his name. It was not until 2015 that his identity was discovered through DNA testing, and there is still a twenty-year gap in his life history with no known records
6EyK8 TIL Qian Xuesen was a Chinese scientist/colonel in the US army partially responsible for helping America go to space. But because of racism, he was deported to China. He was the father of Chinese rocketry and is one of the reasons why China is a world power today with ICBMS.
ZpdoR TIL That Alawites, a branch of Shia Islam present in Syria, believe that humans were once stars in the firmament that were casted out of it due to divine punishment and have to go through several reincarnations before they can return to the sky