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

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ldON TIL learned that studio execs balked when Jim Carrey asked for $400,000 for Dumb and Dumber. Then Ace Ventura: Pet Detective came out and the studio had to pay Carrey $7 million to do the movie!
x67p5 TIL Retro Studio‘s idea for an open world Metroid game where Samus receives rewards for captured criminals was shot down because nobody at Nintendo knew or understood what a bounty hunter was, despite labelling her as such since 1986
xVJkb TIL that "were" and "wer" are archaic terms for adult male humans and were often used for alliteration with wife as "were and wife" in Germanic-speaking cultures, and in the Old English construction "werman".
ob5r TIL George Clinton doesn’t know who played guitar for one of Funkadelic’s greatest guitar solos, “Get Off Your Ass and Jam” (1975). The mystery guitarist was a white heroin addict that asked to sit in and was paid $50.
OGV07 TIL that India successfully tested its first nuclear bomb on May 18, 1974 under a code name "Operation Smiling Buddha."