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TIL Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin moved to Singapore before Facebook went public and therefore saved himself as much as $100 million in U.S. Capital Gains Taxes

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XEOw8 TIL the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea is 330 metres (1,080 ft) tall and was intended to be world's tallest hotel but these days it is the tallest unoccupied building in the world