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TIL Counterfeit detector pens used in grocery stores contain an iodine solution that reacts with the starch in wood-based paper to create a black stain. When the solution is applied to the fiber-based paper used in real bills, no discoloration occurs.

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RrM8 TIL that electronic musician Aphex Twin owns a tank, which he acquired through a ‘shady kind of exchange’ - “It’s easy to get carried away when you’re raving down the thoroughfare in a steel-hulled tank…. You don’t even have to signal, people simply get right out of your way.”
4XGZ6 TIL Funerals in Taiwan sometimes feature erotic dancers to attract mourners and assist the transition to the afterlife
oBEyE TIL that Ronald McDonald isn’t allowed to tell children where the hamburgers really come from, “if they asked where the food came from [we were told to say] that the hamburgers grow in a patch with the French fries next to them”
5YYyR TIL that there are only 5 people left who are relatives from hitler. 3 of whom chose not to have kids or get married to kill off the bloodline.
woPRM TIL in 2018, a preschool assistant in Hawaii was fired after mistakenly serving cups of Pin-Sol cleaning fluid to children instead of apple juice.