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TIL In Japan, Real Estate Properties Are Always Depreciating Assets Similar to How Vehicles Are

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wLKnJ TIL Rick Harrison from Pawn Stars dropped out of high school to pursue his $2,000-a-week business of selling fake Gucci bags.
5Y4En TIL that due to a strong dislike towards mixing of science and politics, Einstein said were he a young man again, he'd choose to be a plumber or a peddler, to which many plumbing companies responded by making him the honorary plumber. Also, there are many Einstein Plumbing companies in the US now.
GkP7 TIL Peter Jackson hates the Dead Men of Dunharrow (Army of the Dead) in The Return of the King, but kept them in, so he wouldn’t disappoint die-hard fans.
pQ1N TIL the 1999 Sega Dreamcast game Shenmue strived for accuracy to the point of replicating the weather in Yokosuka, Japan in 1987
WeJB TIL Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring’s younger brother Albert despised Nazism, and offered active resistance to the regime, including helping prisoners escape from concentration camps. He was arrested four times, but Hermann secured his release each time.