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TIL Bill Gates supports a financial transactions/Robin Hood tax

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nWad7 TIL About the search for R. Sørnes' 4th astronomical clock. Best described as mechanical real-time models of the solar system, the self-taught farmer son from Norway - rebuffed by clock-makers in his youth - made some of the most complicated clocks in existence.
R58G6 TIL the expression "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" comes from the 1878 novel 'Molly Bawn' by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
J1nk8 TIL that India's largest political party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, has nearly double the membership of the Chinese Communist Party.
Rbk1 TIL that Mexico City has more museums than any other city in the world.
awPXM TIL that the Alfred, formally known as the Black Prince, became the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag; the precursor to the Stars and Stripes that we know today. The flag was hoisted on the Delaware River by John Paul Jones and this event was documented in letters to Congress