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TIL that drug dealers are legally required to pay a "drug tax" on their illegal contraband by buying a Drug Tax Stamp from the Department of Revenue

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8eeDa TIL Nobel winner James Watson wrote "The Double Helix" in a fiction like style to attract young people in science. He originally wanted to title his memoir "Honest Jim", and then "Base Pairs", but his co-discoverer Francis Crick had issues with it
XZXD TIL the Disney film “Mulan” originally began as a short, straight-to-video film project titled “China Doll” about an oppressed and miserable Chinese girl who is whisked away by a British Prince Charming to happiness in the West.
lB5B TIL a can of Coke will sink in water but Diet Coke will float
R7DBQ TIL that Ireland is the only country in Europe to have a lower population now than 100 years ago. This can mostly be attributed to the Great Irish Famine which caused over 4 million to die or emigrate on coffin ships. The British sending food to Britain greatly contributed to mass starvation.
b6onQ TIL: About the 1998 Balleny Island earthquake, the largest recorded earthquake to strike Antarctica