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RmO8 TIL: The U.S. Federal tax code has 74,608 pages (187 times longer than it was a century ago)
9Yv8D TIL that in the late Middle Ages, books were so valuable that libraries would chain them to the bookcase. This was widely practised until the 18th century.
POpn TIL Companies that appear on the TV Show Shark Tank have to give away 5% of their companies equity or 2% Royalties.
7rKQL TIL in WW2 the Nazis were thinking of ruining the British economy by dropping counterfeit bank notes, causing inflation.
ep0lD TIL mammalian placentas have the genes of both parents. The mother's side of the placenta contains her genes but on the embryo's side are paternally imprinted causing what animal breeders call the "Paternal Grandsire Effect" causing certain traits to skip a generation.