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TIL Philip Seymour Hoffman did not want his children to be "trust fund babies" so he did not create a trust. This resulted in a $12 million estate tax bill that he could have avoided if he made a trust fund.

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6EaRl TIL: Alice Crook, a PhD student, analyzed Presbyterian records from 62,456 children born in Scotland between 1680 and 1839. She found middle names rare until about 1780 when their popularity began to rise dramatically—almost 99% of children in her sample who had middle names were born after 1780.
JYvGl TIL: Somebody is using a retired 727 as a home outside Portland, OR
xOQ5 TIL astronomers have recently discovered a potentially habitable planet just 16 light-years away from Earth
XEo6Q TIL that the Procrastinators' Club of America, based in Pennsylvania, publishes a newsletter called "Last Month's Newsletter".
nennW TIL that in 1997 an Economist at the Mercatus Center Argued that the EPA "not taken into account that smog-free skies would result in more cases of skin cancer"