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TIL US citizens are essentially tax prisoners everywhere they go and even if they've never physically lived in the US - subject to laborious reporting requirements with punitive penalties for non-compliance that grow even larger if they try to leave the system by ending citizenship.

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E1Ado TIL Ford Motor Company paid for an uncensored, commercial free airing of Schindler’s List in Primetime on NBC in 1997. It included two short intermissions with countdown clocks.
kJaMB TIL There is a Sasquatch Park in British Columbia, as the legendary Bigfoot is said to have roamed the area
RZow TIL There has been an encrypted sculpture called “Kryptos” that is located on the grounds of the CIA headquarters since 1990 and has yet to be fully decrypted.
G5Og TIL the Queen can de-knight someone, one of the last people to be de-knighted was a financier who participated in a scheme to inflate the share price of Guinness.
b6EG7 TIL that, the astronomer Patrick Moore, whose fiancée was killed by a German bomb in 1943, said in 2012 that “We must take care. The Germans will try again, given another chance” and “the only good Kraut is a dead Kraut.”