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7mZZ TIL that Geneva Steel, in an effort to show the company’s importance to the local economy, paid its employees bonuses in $2 bills, which then started showing up in local businesses
LQBk9 TIL that humans can produce light through bioluminescence, but it's usually too faint for our eyes to detect.
a8n4L TIL in 1983, a soviet military officer “saved the world” from a full-blown nuclear war by disobeying orders, after receiving a false alarm of missiles fired by the USA
6KWZ TIL - Leopold II of Belgium is responsible for an estimated 10 million deaths in Congo. Also, he was so notorious for mutilation that the left hand was removed from his statue.
0ZD5 TIL in 1964, a high school student in San Diego stayed awake for eleven days, demonstrating that sleep deprivation has little effect, other than the mood changes associated with tiredness. He currently holds the scientifically documented record for the longest period a human has gone without sleep.