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TIL There are nearly as many $100 bills as there are $1 bills in currency today, each about 6x as common as the $10 bill.

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aBw9 TIL Coca Cola Freestyle machines send data to Coke’s headquarters to help inform them whether beverage flavors should be recalled, discontinued, or created.
yyEM TIL that the first Canadian casualties of the Afghanistan war were from an American pilot bombing a training exercise.
xkDb TIL that Nazi Germany treated black people generally indifferently, and as a result most black people we treated far better than Jews or homosexuals.
XE8yP TIL of Leona Woods, the only woman physicist on the team which built the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the Manhattan Project. She became a mother during the Project but hid her pregnancy as not to miss work. Afterwards as a professor, she authored >200 papers in physics and astrophysics.
4kLb6 TIL Convicted felon in the Watergate Scandal, G. Gordon Liddy, played an antagonist called "Satori-san" in the 1990 syndicated show Super Force