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TIL Many Rich people buy fine art to evade taxes

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PbeJ TIL that males have disproportionately larger noses than females (at least those of European descent) - not because they tend to be larger overall, but because of how muscle is distributed differently between men and women
j6y9v TIL the fastest ball ever bowled in cricket was 161.3km/h or 100.2mph by Shoaib Akhtar against England during the Cricket World Cup, 2003
rRjBx TIL roughly 70% of businesses in Sicily still pay protection money to the Sicilian Mafia.
7WOP TIL that after leaving office, Lyndon Johnson’s Oval Office desk was taken to his museum, and once in a while, he would sit at the desk to “surprise unsuspecting museum visitors.”
wM9J TIL many Americans who need mental health services never get it because doing so could disqualify them from receiving life insurance