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TIL part of the reason the US Treasury doesn’t put the 2 dollar bill into wider circulation is because people opt to collect them, rather than actually spending them

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QNlbd TIL the founder of ESPN (Bill Rasumssen) netted less than $1 million (after-tax) when ABC acquired ESPN
8WA4 TIL that rats who were trained to press a lever for food stopped pressing the lever once they saw that it also caused another rat to receive an electric shock
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ANMEx TIL Hanson's hit "MMMBop" was originally recorded as a slower, gloomier doo-wop influenced song. It was only after producer Steve Greenberg heard Beck’s album "Odelay", he enlisted The Dust Brothers to rework the song as we know it.
6EErY TIL that a man Caligula recalled from exile told the emperor that he had been praying for the death of the previous emperor, Tiberius. After considering this, Caligula concluded that all the people he had exiled must therefore be praying for his own death, so he had them executed en masse.