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TIL that the U.S. Government believes that very high quality counterfeit United States one hundred-dollar bills have been made by unknown organizations or governments, and that most likely most of these notes were produced in North Korea.

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KYgD6 TIL that a set of triplets found each other coincidentally after being separated at adoption for a pyschological experiment, when a college student mistook one of the triplets for his unknown brother. Once the two reunited, the unusual story made the paper catching the attention of the third brother
gr00b TIL Paschal Beverly Randolph, considered the first to introduce erotic alchemy to North America, promoted sex magic to improve health, love, women’s empowerment, and intelligent offspring. He referred God as both male and female and also believed bodies ran on electric currents, moved by magnetism.
GAZmE TIL that the song "Rap God" by Eminem has the world record for highest amount of words in one song, at 4.28 words per second.
698Z TIL that, prior to WWII in the United States, Einstein was so well-known that people regularly stopped him on the street to inquire about his theories, to which he began replying, “Pardon me, I am often mistaken for Professor Einstein.”
MeY88 TIL that the name Lloyd comes from Llwyd, the Welsh word for grey. Harold Lloyd's paternal grandfather was from Wales