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TIL in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, public transportation is free for its residents.

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OOWX TIL that Google has been using money-shifting strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” to help reduce its tax rate down to 2.4 percent.
x6bp1 TIL Today it's a mouse, and not a fairy, that leaves money or gifts for children in many parts of the world, including France, Mexico, Spain and Peru.
jxPQ TIL Steve from “Blues Clues” released an indie rock album produced by Dave Fridmann of Mercury Rev and featuring Steve Drozd of The Flaming Lips.
xrbw TIL of Heinrich Schliemann, who survived a shipwreck as a young boy, made a small fortune off the California gold rush, cornered the market in indigo dye and ammunition constituents in Russia during the Crimean War, was fluent in 14 languages, and excavated the site presumed to be Troy.
wa1M TIL John Wayne Gacy’s defense team tried to argue that all 33 of his victims died purely accidentally in erotic aspyhxia incidents… including the one non-strangulation victim who was repeatedly stabbed in the chest.