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TIL that Abraham Lincoln was on the first US $10 bill - not the $5. Who was on the first $5 bill? Alexander Hamilton.

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oddo TIL the Pentagon plans to seed the ocean floor with payloads of sensors, drones and other devices, which will lay dormant waiting to be called into action to aid U.S. forces. This program is called “Upward Falling Payload.”
165oV TIL: A shrimp's heart is in it's head!
Mek6B TIL most animal and plant species are able to generate Vitamin C on their own. Humans (and related species), Guinea Pigs and Capybaras are among the few that can't
lorxV TIL Pope John XII died on 14 May 964; one story relates that he died of a paralytic stroke suffered while having sex with a woman named Stefanetta. He may have died instead when the woman's husband defenestrated John or beat him to death with a hammer during the act.
xXDk TIL A guy died of heart attack after taking a bottle of Viagra and having sex for twelve hours