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TIL that after Netflix threatened to move House of Cards S3 production when Maryland removed millions of dollars of tax benefits for filming, the legislature responded by threatening to use eminent domain to seize the production team’s assets, since they had already received millions in tax benefits

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6YYW TIL there are three “original” citrus fruits: the citron, the pomelo, and the mandarine. All other citrus fruits are hybrids.
xVBmg TIL: there is an engineering marvel in Norway. One huge platform stand on just one concrete column in the sea with 251 meters height! I just wonder how they built it till I watched this documentary about it.
9YgbQ TIL that The Nobel Prize committee maintains its funds by investing in securities, real estate, the stock market, bonds, loans etc. As per the will which established the committee it was supposed to invest in "safe securities" but the term was re-interpreted after the two world wars.
R7Z69 TIL that the Tyrannosaurus Rex didn’t roar but rather they would make a low, almost grumble noise and use the vibrations from that noise to communicate, this is because they were actually stealthy hunters and would wait in the wooded areas and stalk their prey. Use headphones to listen to the video
MDB7 TIL sloths used to exist which were the size of elephants. The Megatherium weighed 4 tonnes, could use its tail and hind legs like a tripod, and was hunted to extinction by early man only 10,000 years ago.