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TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.

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PY9mZ TIL Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was written as a cynical response to The Captain & Tenille's "Love Will Keep Us Together."
16yoD TIL about Doggyland, Snoop Dog's animated kids show and accompanying rap album, rapping about loving yourself, being polite and respecting others.
8abkX TIL two men sued Aunt Jemima for failing to pay royalties only to lose after having no proof they were heirs of the model Aunt Jemima is based upon.
9YK9X TIL that human subjects have been shown to grossly underestimate exponential growth. "Neither special instructions about the nature of exponential growth nor daily experience with growth processes enhanced the extrapolations."
ned5o TIL that in a 1993 press release, id Software had written that they expected Doom to be "the number one cause of decreased productivity in businesses around the world". Doom indeed became a problem in workplaces like Microsoft and Intel, and educational institutes like University of Louisville.