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TIL Many Rich people buy fine art to evade taxes

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4lAN TIL Pope John XII died whilst enjoying an adulterous sexual encounter outside Rome at the hands of an outraged husband.
DDxe TIL: Real life castaway drifted into the Pacific Ocean for 13 months surviving off rainwater, fish, and sea turtles. Several large ships saw him but refused to help him. He eventually drifted to land.
PYByw TIL that Top Fuel Dragsters burn up to 15 gallons of nitromethane per approximately 4 second run reaching speeds of up to 330 MPH. The engine is entirely rebuilt between each run in just 40 minutes. The drivers experience up to 4.75g's of force, more than an austronaut during a space shuttle launch.
k9Og TIL That 3D printing is a 30 year technology that has become popular these years only because the patents have expired or will expire soon.
9YljM TIL a Texas sheriff was duped into buying money copying box. Irate that the box did not work, he confronted the seller, who convinced the sheriff he had been operating it incorrectly and gave him some money for the trouble. The sheriff was later arrested because the money he had been given was fake.