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TIL Rolex is owned by a foundation which is registered as a charity and therefore pays no corporate tax

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v10r8 TIL Cleveland, Ohio is further west than mainland South America.
JY6ml TIL that Rick Rescorla, the director of security at Morgan Stanley, saved the lives of nearly his whole company on 9/11 by making them evacuate the South Tower as soon as the North Tower was hit, which was against Port Authority orders
LkbJV TIL: The unrefrigerated milk they buy in Europe has a shelf life of up to SIX MONTHS when unopened, compared to just 7-10 days in the US and Canada thanks to different pasteurization methods.
Ygnv TIL 10,000 shipping containers are lost at sea each year and 10% of those hold toxic chemicals which may leak into the ocean
ADDYn TIL an an American Indian woman left behind during an evacuation in 1835 lived alone on a remote island off the coast of California for 18 years, inspiring the children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."