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TIL that the UK govt has created a tax called the “Google Tax” to stop corporates diverting funds abroad to reduce tax liability.

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p88YN TIL Hawaii affectionately calls Las Vegas “The 9th Island” with more than 300,000 Hawaiians visiting there annually.
M7OjW TIL about Grand Duke Travis I of Westarctica, the American man who has claimed the otherwise unclaimed part of Antarctica as his own territory
e0lPE TIL Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit runs a cat rescue in Detroit.
8a7PV TIL about Jahangir Khan: A Pakistani squash player who won the World Open 6 times and went undefeated from 1981-1986, winning 555 games in a row which is the longest winning streak by any athlete in top-level professional sports as recorded by Guinness World Records.
Qg96 TIL that Arnold Sommerfield, a theoretical physicist, was doctoral supervisor to 4 physicists who went on to win Nobel Prizes in physics, and academic supervisor to 2 others who also won. He himself was nominated 81 times.