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

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0d0Dp TIL in 2005, Joaquin Phoenix flipped his car. He heard someone tell him to "just relax". Phoenix replied, "I'm fine. I am relaxed." The man replied, "No, you're not." The man then stopped Phoenix from lighting a cigarette while gasoline was leaking into the car cabin. The man was Werner Herzog.
GYwB1 TIL In 2014 the CDC once found a smallpox sample that they had lost and didn’t even know it. It was just laying around in some random storeroom.
l7vPK TIL Brazil found incarcerated populations read 9x as much as the general population. They made a new program for prisoners so each written book review took 4 days off a prison sentence.
W7ge4 TIL that the tallest tree ever measured wasn’t actually a redwood. It was an Australian mountain ash. Which was recorded at a height of over 130 meters!
xVOvw TIL that in 1953, Jerry Stiller met actress-comedienne, Anne Meara, and they married in 1954. Until Stiller suggested it, Meara had never thought of doing comedy. Before Seinfeld, the comedy team Stiller and Meara, was successful in the 1960s and 1970s. They were married together for over 60 years.