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TIL. Murdoch renounced his Australian citizenship to become an American citizen. Your’e welcome

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oR5y8 TIL that to persuade his first wife to accept a divorce, Einstein promised her the entire financial reward from his Nobel Prize. Three years later, he won the prize and transferred all the money to her.
8aGRb TIL In Japan, a festival called Kanamara Matsuri, or 'Festival of the Steel Phallus' celebrates the defeat of a vagina demon by an iron penis.
pYGab TIL that the global tree canopy increased by 2.24 million square kilometers (865,000 square miles) between 1982 and 2016
G47J TIL: A programmer was hired by a Florida congressman to rig electronic voting machines in previous elections with a 49%/51% outcome. The code was not detectable. This is the video of his testimony under oath.
pyKA TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China.