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TIL the Wal-Mart heirs are worth as much as bottom 41.5% of Americans.

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woveo TIL only 8,012 of the 1928 US $1 bill were circulated in America. The rest were stored in a vault for 15 years. From November 1948 to February 1949; 1,872,012 of these $1 bills were sent to Puerto Rico, because "these notes would raise questions if circulated in the continental United States"
OoAlX TIL that the US military has never banned the use of napalm on military targets away from civilian areas, and still has a type of bomb very similar to napalm called the Mark 77 that has been used in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
4Xjd6 TIL Winston Churchill got Iran to change its name to Persia, to avoid confusion with Iraq during WW2
7r60x TIL Aviator style sunglasses were popularised by American general Douglas MacArthur when he landed on a beach in the Philippines during WWII and some newspaper photographers got him on camera
ok8 TIL that in Peru villagers save up their greivences all year and have one massive public brawl on Christmas Day.