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TIL Las Vegas isn’t actually in Las Vegas. Most of the strip and casinos are located in unincorporated Paradise, NV as a tax-dodge

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5Ym1n TIL That the Czech language was saved from extinction by puppet shows. In the 17th century, the Catholic Ferdinand II forced the Protestant Czech people to speak in German and banned the Czech language. Puppets were the only remaining entities that had the right to speak Czech in public places.
78aBr TIL: Cats outnumber humans in Cyprus, with 1.5 million cats on an island about 10% the size of Ireland
8eypb TIL 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the most expensive movie ever made, with a total cost of $447 million. Disney reduced costs using the UK’s Film Tax Relief, receiving $86.6 million in reimbursements. The movie grossed $2.1 billion worldwide.
Zy4B TIL Someone made a Jack Torrance twitter account, with over 1 million tweets saying the same thing
erv6 TIL that in the Siberian wilderness lives a woman named Agafia Laikov, a 70 old woman who is the last survivor of a ultra orthodox sect that fled Stalins prosecution and had no contact with outsiders for 40 years, not hearing about world war2 until the 1980’s