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

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5V7JR TIL if you're 21 or over in Michigan you can legally drive with a bodily alcohol contact up to .08 but if you're under 21 it's .02, so a 20-year-old is "drunk driving" at an .03 but a 21-year-old can legally drive up to .07
M7Qx0 TIL on 1962, Mississippi Senate expressed its "complete, entire and utter contempt for the Kennedy administration and its puppet courts" about the integration of Ole Miss, when protesting against the admission of James Meredith
pDVb TIL that when you get motion sickness, it’s the result of your brain being tricked into thinking you have been poisoned. The discrepancy between your body feeling motion but not seeing it causes you to vomit the non-existent neurotoxin or poison
QrKa TIL 5 of the 6 longest bridges in the United States are in Louisiana.
0wrG1 TIL the bell sounds at the start of "Hells Bells" were made by a bell custom made for AC/DC. It was a replica of the Loughborough War Museum's Denison Bell, which the band could not record due to pigeons in the tower interrupting.