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TIL Bill Gates supports a financial transactions/Robin Hood tax

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dv09 TIL scorpions are incredibly resilient. Scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
NX0Pe TIL, that in September 2008, filmmakers in Berlin constructed a life-size replica of New York's Guggenheim Museum for a film's central scene
WklLX TIL John Babcock was Canada's last surviving veteran of the First World War, but never considered himself a veteran as he never saw combat.
QJjmX TIL the NYPD once used a photo of three-time Oscar nominee Woody Harrelson to find and arrest a beer thief who looked like the actor.
MeDM0 TIL of the Kalash, a group of around 30,000 people in Pakistan who don't fit into any race category, being genetically distinct from all other races in the world. They are now considered to be humanity's sixth genetic cluster, alongside African, Caucasian, Asian, Oceanian, and Native American.