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TIL United States is the only country in the world which applies the same tax regime to all its citizens, regardless of where they live

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6E6gw TIL The earliest e-cigarette can be traced to American Herbert A. Gilbert, who in 1963 patented "a smokeless non-tobacco cigarette" that involved "replacing burning tobacco and paper with heated, moist, flavored air". This device produced flavored steam without nicotine.
yQJke TIL Financial crisises correlate with Solar activity cycles
vPaj4 TIL the Apollo 10 Mission was a dress rehearsal for the Apollo 11 Moon Landing. Astronauts Stafford and Cernan descended to about 8 miles above the moon. The lunar module they flew was capable of landing, but their mission was to photograph the landing site for Armstrong and Aldrin two months later.
W4jX TIL once Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked how it’s like to stand on the moon, he said “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
Y7RLd TIL: Lead is still a major pollutant and are largely being recycled under dangerous conditions by largely extremely poor populations.