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TIL the Navy’s stealth destroyer, the USS Zumwalt, can’t fire its guns because the ammo is too expensive

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P1YjV TIL France charges tire manufacturers a tax of about $1 per tire to pay for tire recycling. The penalty for non payment is $8,000 per tire. This is how you recycle.
nWXKB TIL: Pope Gregory IX issued a Papal Bull in the 11th Century declaring that cats bore Satan’s spirit. Huge numbers of cats were killed throughout Europe, an indirect cause of the Bubonic plague spread by fleas on rats.
4RKR TIL the individual U.S. federal income tax rate in the early 1960s for the highest incomes was 91%
kPg4 TIL that there was a Serial Killer in the US that had a $100,000 homemade torture chamber in his home he called his “toy box”. Just like the “SAW” movies, he tape recorded himself talking to the victims explaining in detail what was going to happen to them.
gMOBy TIL that a Canadian company named MindGeek owns half of the porn industry, internet video sites and movie studios, with most of the actors are under contract with them. They own so much they compete with themselves for content.