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TIL 30 Major U.S. Corporations Paid More to Lobby Congress Than Income Taxes from 2008-2010

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wL6Z6 TIL Bob Marley moved near his mother's residence in Wilmington, Delaware for a short time, during which he worked as a DuPont lab assistant and on the assembly line at a Chrysler plant in nearby Newark, under the alias Donald Marley.
4XGxR TIL about Pan-Pan, an alternative distress signal to Mayday. It is used when the situation is urgent, but does not pose an imminent risk to life. Using Pan-Pan informs potential rescuers that there is a problem, but rescue isn't immediately required.
4Xaow TIL USS Tang (SS-306) was a Balao-class submarine of WW II launched in 1943. Tang sank 33 ships totalling 116,454 tons and was sunk by own torpedo off China in the Taiwan Strait, 24 October 1944.
X4QD TIL Brown eyes are actually blue underneath the brown, and as a result there exists laser surgery to turn brown eyes blue
R74k7 TIL: Research shows that people who buy electric cars prefer for their cars to look strange, indicating a big factor in picking out an electric car is the desire that everyone notices your car is an electric car.