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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.

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Wknl9 TIL Rufus Wainwright, who covered the song "Hallelujah" for Shrek (2001) has a daughter, conceived by the daughter of Leonard Cohen, the original composer of the song.
4kX5w TIL the story of Larry Miller. A gang member who murdered an opposing gang member and spent most of his teens and 20s incarcerated who went on to become president of the Portland Trailblazers and president of the Jordan brand for Nike.
LQvOQ TIL about John Parsons, an Ohioan criminal who escaped from prison for three months using a rope made out of bedsheets, newspaper and toilet paper. In the time between his capture he lived in the wilderness in a small shack, and planned to go to Canada.
xVEoB TIL in 2005, a woman falsely claimed she found a finger in her food at Wendy's. The fast food chain suffered an estimated US$21 million in lost business. She later revealed, she cooked the finger at her home and then drove it to the Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, where she dropped it into the food.
rKnw TIL that when the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act was passed, only the birdseed industry successfully lobbied against it by arguing that hemp seeds gave birds shinier feathers than other seeds. Because of this, birdseed producers are legally allowed to import hemp seeds into the US (deactivated) today.