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TIL that New York City doesn’t have sales tax for clothing items under $110

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b6yWZ TIL: That during the mad cow crisis in the 90s, reactions to the West were overwhelmingly negative in India, where cows hold a special place in the hearts of Hindus. Hindu associations declared that the West had been punished with the appearance of sick humans for its zoophagy, or meat-eating.
XEljk TIL: Before 1859 baseball umpires sat in a rocking chair 20 feet behind home plate
j6kDM TIL that Thomas Lockley, the British “expert” that wrote on the “African Samurai” wrote the truth in Japanese, and total fiction in English.
j6E0R TIL that dead acidic lakes were fairly common in the US, Europe and Canada during the 70's and 80's because of acid rain.
oRZ1o TIL that Little Richard’s only Grammy was a lifetime achievement award in 1993. The Architect of Rock and Roll didn’t win one competitive Grammy.