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TIL that A $500, $1000, $5000, and $10,000 bill exists and is still legal tender

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P1YxE TIL the only armed expedition that resulted in casualties in modern icelandic history happened in 1627, when a group of pirates led by a dutch convert to islam sailed from Algeria and raided the coast of Iceland, capturing 400 and killing 50 people
j96Q TIL in 2014, police in the United States killed 1,100 people while police in Canada killed 14 people, police in China killed 12 people and police in Germany didn’t kill anyone at all
mxdJx TIL that Alice Huyler Ramsey was the first woman to drive coast-to-coast across the USA in 1909. The 22-year-old housewife and mother completed the 3,800-mile journey from New York to San Francisco in a green Maxwell 30. The 59-day trek took 3-weeks longer than planned & 96% of the route was unpaved
Ood7g TIL During WWII there was a bipartisan committee of American Senators who cut so much corruption that they saved several times the cost of the Atomic Bomb program. Members of both parties often voted unanimously together.
MeR1W TIL that Nintendo pushed usage of the term "game console" so people would stop calling products from other manufacturers "Nintendos", otherwise they would have risked losing their trademark.