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TIL all Treasurers of the USA have been women since 1949. Their signatures appear on all paper money.

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OGQde TIL the United States FDA once briefly demanded that Cheerios apply for approval to be sold as a drug, due to its marketing claims of cholesterol health
grPvA TIL of Kermes dye, a Crimson pigment highly valued in the middle ages. It was obtained by grinding dried female Kermes scale insects that carried unhatched eggs within themselves. At the peak of it's popularity, Kermes dye surpassed Tyrian purple as a symbol of status and wealth.
N7WV8 TIL despite what the song American song, "Home, home on the range" says, antelope do not occur in the Americas
9YYpm TIL of Peter Lemon, a Canadian volunteer in the US Army, who won the Medal of Honor for actions performed while stoned on marijuana in Vietnam
QJwpp TIL Astronomers discovered a solid planetary body that may actually be the core of a giant gas planet that lost its atmosphere. This body is about 3.5 times the radius of Earth but has a 39 times greater mass than Earth.