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TIL that Taylor Swift has an impact on the Canadian economy

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xVLgw TIL in 2008, Jeremy Clarkson published his bank details in his Sun newspaper column to prove nobody could take money from his account. Somebody then donated £500 to a Diabetes charity from his account.
nwlG TIL that the salvation army is not a charity. They are an Evangelical business that spent thousands of dollars of donated money to fight gay rights last year. In fact, lots of donated money goes to promoting their beliefs, not charity.
78nnZ TIL that the USSR landed a spacecraft on venus, becoming the first country to soft land a probe on another plant
7rNQZ TIL The brazen bull was invented in Athens between 570 and 554 BC during the reign of Phalaris, tyrant of Acragas, Sicily,. The first test subject was the guy that built it.
GYLD5 TIL Many astronomers claim that color perception and contrast is improved by as much as 40 percent when using binoculars over a telescope. Not only does single-eye viewing of a telescope severely hamper depth perception, it also decreases signal-to-noise ratio