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TIL the the $100 million in famine relief raised by Live Aid in 1985, was used to buy weapons and crush the opposition in Ethiopia’s civil war

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Egdgd TIL that in 1984, Sweden introduced a 0.5% tax on financial transactions. 50% of traders in Stockholm moved to London by 1990. The reduction in market activity resulted in the money raised from the tax being minimal, and actually reduced overall tax revenue due to reductions in capital gains tax.
aDr0 TIL There is an island near Italy that was the site of wars, a dumping ground for plague victims and an insane asylum. It’s considered so dangerously haunted that the Italian government does not allow public access.
KOmpR TIL about the number of attempts to burn down the Gävle goat, including one where the online webcams keeping watch were attacked by a DoS attack, just before the goat was burnt
LkQRd The first-ever 2017 Flat Earth International Conference (FEIC) was held in Raleigh on Nov. 9 and 10, featuring some of the big names in round-Earth denial. Many flat-Earthers believe the Earth is a disc surrounded by an ice wall.
KO0G6 TIL Albert Woolson was the last surviving member of the Union Army who served in the American Civil War. He died in 1956 at age 106.