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TIL illegal income (bribes, etc) are considered taxable income. Authorities can use this to go after people with diplomatic immunity since they are not immune from paying taxes.

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7rwRp TIL Because mountain lions usually wander the wilderness alone, scent scraping sometimes isn’t enough to locate each other for mating. A female mountain lion will ascend to a high elevation and call to a male by caterwauling, a loud blood-curdling screeching cry that can be heard up to 5 miles away.
b97g4 TIL Penn & Teller designed a video game called "Desert Bus" in which the player drove an 8-hour bus route in REAL TIME between Tucson and Vegas. It is impossible to cheat, the only scenery are rocks and road signs & once the player reached the destination, they had to turn around and drive back.
Rao1 TIL there is a Lego movie coming out in 2014 with stars such as Morgan Freeman/Will Ferrell/Liam Neeson and many others
5d7B TIL F-Zero X for the Nintendo 64 was the first racing game to run at 60 Frames Per Second
pbA TIL annually Paris experiences nearly 20 cases of mental break downs from visiting Japanese tourists, whom cannot reconcile the disparity between the Japanese popular image of Paris and the reality of Paris.