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TIL The Shroud off Turin was carbon dated to be from around ~1300 AD

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p8wX4 TIL Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is about a red-headed clerk who had a crush on her husband, but the song is named after one of her fans. Dolly told her, "That is pretty. That sounds like a song. I'm going to write a song about that."
Wk4YY TIL about the Capital Allowances for Intangible Assets, a tax evasion scheme used by Apple, in which a company reroutes its profits to a tax heaven, but also lends itself money to start the scheme and deducts interest on the loan to avoid even more taxes
E1nEW TIL upon hearing about the death of Teddy Roosevelt, Vice President Thomas R. Marshal declared “death had to take him in his sleep, for if he was awake there’d have been a fight”
ADndx TIL about “crazy ants” that often form colonies within electrical equipment and can cause problems in all kinds of electrical systems similar to termites in wood.
wWgM TIL Bond author Ian Fleming believed a popular theory that a man who cannot whistle has homosexual tendencies. He believed this to such an extent that he promoted the theory in one of the Bond novels.