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TIL that the NFL made 9 billion dollars in revenue last year but paid NO taxes because it’s registered as a non-profit organization.

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1ajLO TIL: There is a language called Ithkuil which strives to maximize the amount of information conveyed per unit sound. There are currently no known fluent speakers of Ithkuil, including the language creator himself.
m1mxO TIL that the United States Secretary of War John Armstrong Jr, was so completely sure that Britain would not take Washington during the War of 1812, that he didn’t even try to stop them, when they did.
b6XZE TIL in 1996 snooker legend Jimmy White took his dead brother out on a drinking session the night before his funeral.
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