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TIL about Freeports. Tax Free storage units the wealthy use to store Art, wine, and artifacts investments. The Geneva freeport holds more art then the MOMA in pieces and value.

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NXXaE TIL that Best Foods mayo and Hellman’s mayo are one and the same. So if their logos and packaging look similar, it’s because when Best Foods bought Hellmans they decided to merge the branding to retain Hellman’s loyal customers. Another example is Dreyer’s and Edy’s ice cream.
XE1o6 TIL that only two countries in the world comprehensively tax the worldwide income of their citizens who reside abroad: Eritrea and the USA.
dDEoj TIL: The EU plans to connect the rivers Seine and Scheldt with a 107 km long canal in a project more ambitious than the Panama Canal, creating one continuous inland water transport system from the English Canal to the Black Sea
e01VE TIL of Plennie L. Wingo who walked backwards from Santa Monica, California to Istanbul, Turkey in 1931 and still holds the Guiness record for the greatest extent of reverse pedestrianism.
bW14 TIL that the Gambia is such a weird shape because the French realised that they could not maintain a hold on any land which was within range of the cannons on gunboats in the Gambia river, and so ceded all such land to the British.