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TIL When Willie Nelson’s assets were auctioned by the IRS, fans bought the items and gave them back to Willie

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lodV7 TIL that the poetic way of saying "I love you" in Japan is "The moon is beautiful, isn't it?"
ONV4 TIL that Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II owned both a lion and tiger which he allowed to freely roam around his castle in Prague, despite the fact that they occasionally mauled or killed servants
0wlr1 TIL that in 1695 the English parliament passed a law to tax all bachelors over the age of 25. The Bachelor Tax was later abolished in 1706.
E1VAx TIL that weaver ants (Oecophylla) direct their larvae to produce silk, which is used to bind leaves together to form water resistant nests for the colony.
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