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TIL the U.S. government incurs a yearly loss of $110 million from minting pennies.

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ANLod TIL of Cindy James, a Canadian nurse who disappeared on May 25, 1989 and was discovered 2 weeks later. Despite the autopsy stating that she died of a combined drug overdose, she had been reporting harassment from an unknown stalker for 7 years. Her cause of death was changed to an "unknown event."
ANkkl TIL if you assume an event has a 1 in x chance of some outcome, and you perform that event x number of times, you have a ~63% chance of getting that outcome
YpDkd TIL Sweden's early history is largely unknown because there are no written documents from Sweden before the 12th century. On its formation, a Swedish history book simply states: "How and when the Swedish kingdom appeared is not known."
jpMX TIL: Cocaine raises dopamine levels by 250%, compared to 100% from sex and 50% from food.
Znk4 TIL One of the thirteen articles in the 1781 US Articles of Confederation states that if Canada wants to be admitted into the United States, it will automatically be accepted.