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TIL that in New York City, while its delicious bagels are not subject to a sales tax if they are whole, buying an ‘altered’ (i.e. sliced or with cream cheese) bagel will increase the sales tax by 8¢.

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GYvdJ TIL that televangelist Kenneth Copeland is also a clown and author.
8KXP TIL “Porn Judge” is an official Chinese government job title. Judges are paid $32,000 per year to view porn all day and have the sacred task of “returning the Internet to a clean and safe state”. One judge is named “Wang Dong”.
9YmyD TIL Tame Impala is a single person named Kevin Parker who writes, plays, and produces all the recorded music, but tours with a group of other musicians to form the full live band.
a1J9 TIL the HIV/AIDS conspiracy theory in which the disease was manufactured by the US government, was actually a KGB misinformation campaign, Operation INFEKTION
5Vx5D TIL Óscar Taveras, whom Baseball America ranked as the third-best prospect in all of baseball in 2013, died in a car accident at the age of 22. His BAC was 0.287, nearly six times the legal limit for the Dominican Republic.