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TIL Warren Buffet filed his first tax return at age 13 to report income from his paper route, and claimed a $35 deduction for use of his bicycle.

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ANOMn TIL that after leading a peasant revolt in Hungary in 1514, György Dósza was punished by being chained to a heated iron throne and had pieces of flesh torn off by hot pliers. His followers were then forced to eat him alive by biting the spots where the pliers were inserted and to swallow his flesh.
jNEyj TIL of Benjamin Lay, an 18th century Quaker dwarf with a hunchback who challenged the ideas of slavery, meat-eating, and racism. He also lived in a cave with his wife. (There is truly a lid for every pot.)
Z81Y4 TIL that “World’s quietest rally race” exists: it’s a rally race which only the electric vehicles can participate in and it’s held annualy in Croatia, the birthplace of Nikola Tesla - ingenious inventor who discovered and developed alternating current electricity we use today
1em7 TIL of the Emeryville Shellmound, an Ohlone Indian burial site and village occupied from at least 2800 years ago to 400 years ago, which now is contaminated with early industrial waste and paved over with a shopping mall and an Ikea.
OoV74 TIL it's unknown where the tomb of Archimedes is located today. The last known record of his tomb was in 75 BC, 137 years after Archimedes had died, when Cicero had found the tomb in a neglected condition and overgrown with bushes, and had the tomb cleaned up.