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TIL the 5th Amendment protects someone from revealing the source of their illegal income, but not the amount.

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rRJnM TIL Ontario premier Doug Ford was the brother of Toronto mayor Rob Ford.
WRkX TIL a man survived in a sunken ship for nearly three days, 270 feet underwater, in pitch darkness, while listening to fish eat the corpses of his shipmates.
R7oOl TIL the underwater Channel Tunnel between the UK and France is built to be earthquake-resistant, even though the last major earthquake in that area occurred in 1580.
P1p0E TIL that in the US bartenders/waiters can be sued by the patrons themselves if they end up drunk and getting into trouble
gM1YA TIL of "Happy Tail Syndrome." This condition occurs when particularly happy and boisterous dogs manage to damage the end of their tail through excessive wagging which causes it to bang repeatedly against hard household features like walls and doors.