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TIL that because of tax loopholes, Google has been able to get their effective tax rate down to 2.4%.

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QJxlL TIL about John Gurdon, who was ranked last out of 250 boys in his year group in Biology and in a progress report, his teacher said that pursuing Biology for him would be a "waste of time, for him and those who have to teach him". In 2012, John Gurdon won the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine
QNLEp TIL Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, the person who played the child in "Boyhood," uses the singular they pronoun and rejects the gender binary. "For me, the binary gender demarcation always has felt just kind of like … a charade, like this character that I have to play."
5VJkB TIL Hulk Hogan is Hispanic
WW48 TIL that every July there is a spike in mortality rates and medical errors in hospitals due to medical students coming in as new interns. It’s called the July effect and/or Killing Season.
vKyL TIL that the IMDB rating for “This is Spinal Tap” is out of 11 stars.