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TIL that the Guinness Book of World Records and Guinness Breweries are the same Guinness.

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eaj6 TIL the typical tax evader in the United States is a male under the age of 50 in the highest tax bracket and with a complicated return, and the most common means of tax evasion is overstatement of charitable contributions, particularly church donations.
nWxgG TIL that some of the stones used in the creation of Stonehenge were bluestones from the Preseli Hills in western Wales and may have been chosen for their acoustic properties.
xVXVk TIL the expression “turn a blind eye” comes from Admiral Nelson, who was blind in one eye; when he was signaled to stop attacking a fleet of ships, Nelson raised the telescope to his blind eye and said: “I have only one eye, and I have a right to be blind sometimes… I really do not see the signal!”
JYE1j TIL Sicilian and Italian are two different languages, with Sicilian preceding the Italian language
wLWM7 Today I learned a business got the US government to topple a democratically elected government under false pretenses over bananas.