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TIL there used to be a $5000 dollar bill, and if you had one you could get around $300K for it.

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e0ap4 TIL about the Kogi tribe, an indigenous people who choose their priests at birth and raise them in a dark cave for a decade to connect them to the earth.
N7ZP1 TIL the Union Army tried to invade Texas with 5000 men during the Civil War. The defending confederate side was only comprised of 50 Irishmen. The defenders killed or captured over 200 union soldiers, destroyed 2 gunboats and suffered no losses themselves and received Irish styled medals as a reward
P1gg TIL Robert Downey Jr. did the voice acting of Patrick Pewterschmidt in the TV show “Family Guy”
Ov6X TIL that David Bowie’s permanently dilated pupil was the result of a punch to the face in a fight over a girl. Despite their altercation, he and George Underwood stayed friends and Underwood went on to do the artwork for Bowie’s early albums.
6EomY TIL of Eva Umlauf, a Jew who arrived in Auschwitz at the age of two in 1944. Despite her young age, she was tattooed with her camp number: A26959. Getting it was so painful, that she passed out. Her mother was a digit lower. Eva thinks she was the youngest child to have been tattooed who survived.