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TIL about The Tragically Hip, "the most Canadian band in the world". They have sold more albums in Canada than global bands like U2, and have had nine albums in the #1 spot on Canadian charts, but are virtually unknown outside of Canada.

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4kD06 TIL of the complicated I Dig It tax loophole. It's an intentionally defective grantor trust, or IDGT, for short and allows for someone to decrease their estate with no gift or transfer tax consequences. The IRS has never blessed the loophole but it says its powerless to stop it.
jbyN TIL Blackbeard’s flagship the Queen Anne’s Revenge was found in 1996. There’s a conservation project to bring it to the surface.
b6ZrQ TIL a residnece st 220 Central Park South was sold in 2019 for nearly $240 million, the most expensive home sold anywhere in the United States
5YPpn TIL that Spanish military outpost Penon de Velez de la Gomera on the Moroccan coastline forms the shortest international border in the entire world, spanning only 74 meters. It was also once an island until a 1934 storm left the sandy isthmus that serves as the border today.
XEWkX TIL that Festivus, a fictional holiday from a 1997 Seinfeld ep featuring the "Airing of Grievances," where celebrants tell loved ones ways they've "wronged" them over the previous year, is still celebrated annually by a Fla. newspaper that prints grievances from around the U.S. on Festivus, Dec. 23.