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TIL that in an effort to save $43.5, the Canadian Mint mailed the dies of the new $1 coin via a discount courier over using an armored car- which were promptly stolen and have never been found. This would lead to the adoption of the Loonie design as an emergency replacement.

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GY8QQ TIL Disney's Jungle Cruise ride was built in a lot full of orange trees. Some of them had to be removed to make way for construction and they tagged them with red and green to know which ones to keep, but the bulldozer operator was color blind and removed them all.
Bgbdb TIL after his execution, the head of King Louis XVI was displayed to a crowd that shouted "Long live the Nation!", "Long live the Republic!", and "Long live Liberty!"
v1AVD TIL Credit Card Information can be stolen wirelessly from an arms length while you still have them in your purse. Thieves wirelessly scanned a credit card in a woman's purse while she exited her vehicle outside a Walmart store and then used it while she was still inside the store.
0wLGp TIL that in Poznan, Poland, eight clams get to decide if people in the city get water or not. They’re equipped with sensors atop them that trip the water supply pumps when they close due to detecting something unsafe in the water.
JY7xV TIL that after Pearl Harbor three men were trapped deep in the USS West Virginia for 16 days which they marked on the wall of the storeroom they had found shelter in. Soldiers were unable to reach them and no one wanted guard duty near the ship due to the incessant banging of the trapped survivors.