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TIL Paypal plans to create their own island in order to avoid taxes

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JAjB TIL that in the United Kingdom, if a local or national election has resulted in a tie, the winner can be decided either by drawing straws/lots, coin flip, or drawing a high card in pack of cards.
69p4W TIL Mount Everest grows in height by 4mm (0.16in) every year
OoZx4 TIL that Kevin Conroy (Batman in Batman the Animated Series) volunteered at a kitchen serving first responders after 9/11 and cheered up the diners by doing his Batman voice
nWJv7 TIL a New York Jets fan was once killed by a drone shaped like a lawnmower
Oo1Xa TIL that George B. McClellan, the mayor of New York in 1904, was to symbolically start the first train at City Hall station and the hand it over to an engineer. However, he enjoyed himself so much that he refused to stop controlling the train until he reached 103rd street.