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TIL the fee for renouncing your citizenship in the United States is $2,350, which is the highest citizenship renunciation fee of any nation and 20 times higher than the average price of other high-income nations.

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BrglK TIL that most of the presidentially pardoned turkeys die within a year of being spared
vAWr TIL The maternity ward of Dutch princess Juliana (sheltered in Canada during WW2) was declared international territory so that the child would be born in no country and inherit Dutch citizenship. In gratitude, she sent 100,000 tulips paving the way for the Canadian Tulip Festival.
5w6n TIL before the invention of antivenom, the black mamba had a 100% fatality rate and it’s victims would be dead in about 20 minutes.
5Y7E8 TIL about Spring-Heeled Jack, a mysterious boogeyman that was said to ring residents of Londons’ doorbells dressed as a bear, a ghost or a devil and scratch them with metal claws before leaping away with unnatural agility. Sightings of him stretched from 1837 to 1904.
oBoBW TIL the mosquitos they extracted the blood from to create the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park didn’t actually suck blood, negating the entire premise of the film