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TIL that tax easement can be recompensed to investors for not developing an unsustainable project;as compensation for projected loss of investment

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b9EMa TIL that UK supermarket chains source their bottled water in the same place
a8VBy TIL hair smells bad when burned because keratin needs large amounts of the sulfur-containing amino acid cysteine for polymer crosslinking, which give it it's rigid properties
xVlvw TIL that in the years following the Kennedy assassination, when she found herself in need of money, Lee Harvey Oswald's mother would go to Dealey Plaza and sell her autograph to tourists.
QNQje TIL Food blogs include long contextual stories to make their recipes harder to steal.
9YRKG TIL UK's highest-paid entertainer in WW2, George Formby, went to Normandy after the landings, & gave 9 shows to frontline troops who’d held out for 56 days without relief, his audience in foxholes. He also crawled through trenches to tell jokes when the enemy was too close for a show.