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TIL Canada once minted a $1 million dollar coin, which was promptly stolen and never found.

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KObww TIL Marvel's near collapse led to dominance. In The 90’s they desperately sold film rights to their characters for operating capital. A few hits(Blade & X-Men) led studios to consider the comic movie viable. Failure by most caused many of the rights to return to Marvel, who created Marvel Studios.
xV7EB Til indigenous people of mexico have only regained their pre-colonial population of 25 million this century
Wk1KY TIL Simpsons creator Matt Groening said he was the fan of Beavis and Butthead, because the show largely took "the heat off Bart Simpson being responsible for the downfall of western civilization."
kOaee TIL In 2002, highly toxic counterfeit cigarettes were being sold in the UK. The cigarettes were produced in unhygienic factory conditions, included tobacco sweepings, sawdust, dirt, banned chemicals. The cigarettes accounted for at least a quarter of all cigarettes smoked in Britain that year.
woAQW TIL that, in 1947, there was a proposal to create an independent united Bengali state instead of partitioning Bengal between India and Pakistan. It was not accepted, though it did have some support. (In 1971, east Bengal, also known as East Pakistan, acquired its independence as Bangladesh.)