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TIL Australia has claimed the largest territory of Antarctica

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MemZB TIL later PS2 models can't properly run some games designed for the PS2 itself (along with some PSOne games)
kOGN7 TIL The Laffer curve, a theoretical relationship between rates of taxation and resulting revenue. It assumes that no tax revenue is raised at the extreme tax rates of 0% and 100%, and that there is a tax rate that maximizes government tax revenue. The shape of the curve is disputed among economists.
D1Bde TIL that the Lamborghini Murciélago supercar was named after a fighting bull that survived 24 sword strokes in a bullfight in 1879. Such was the bull’s courage that the matador let it live.
VQBQ TIL that NASA estimates that the value of minerals in the asteroid belt exceeds $600,000,000,000,000,000,000. Or nearly $100 billion per person alive.
KOaXQ TIL before the creation of a public, professional, paid fire department in Boston, the city would pay whatever company arrived first at the scene of a fire, which led to intense competition, and even physical altercations between companies on the way to fires.