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TIL You can buy a 5lb bag of shredded US currency from the government, containing approximately $10,000 worth of shredded money. It costs $45.

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a8b TIL In the late 90s, Saddam Hussein commissioned a Quran to be written in his own blood. Now, Muslim leaders aren’t sure what to do with it–To write the Quran in blood was a sin, but to destroy it would also be a sin.
xVVJ5 TIL Dr. Lukas Wartman survived the cancer he studies - Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. Three times.
gdk8 TIL that after South Park aired their episode about Tourette’s, the Tourette Syndrome Association, presuming it would be offensive and insensitive, actually remarked that it was well researched and actually served as a clever was to provide accurate facts.
WEod TIL Matt Groening’s Mother’s maiden name was Wiggum.
kpx7 TIL that during WWII, Ford profited from its factory in Germany. It used ppl from concentration camps to produce military vehicles for the Nazis. In 1945, the US gov paid Ford $1m for damage to the factory caused by Allied bombings. When Holocaust survivors later sued, Ford got the case dismissed.