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TIL that during the Great Depression, the state of Arkansas was in such bad financial shape that the treasurer at one point reported a balance of $4.62 for the entire general revenue fund of the state.

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94o7 TIL that the reason all of Christopher Nolan’s movies have a blue/brown tint to them is because he directs around his red-green colorblindness.
9wYb7 TIL that William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago, invented the community college.
QJKXk TIL in 2017, a company restoring a captured Iraqi tank from the Gulf War, discovered five gold bars hidden in the fuel tank when they found they couldn't lift it even though it was empty of fuel.
GY6Vg TIL that soldiers have been drawing Phallic objects on walls since at least A.D. 207 archaeologists evidence shows Roman Soldiers would Graffiti Hadrian's Wall with them.
kkB7 TIL that the trick from “Office Space” and “Superman III” of stealing tiny fractions of a cent from a large number of transactions to stealthily accumulate a stolen fortune has a name: salami slicing