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TIl that if Apple didn’t hold $181B overseas, it would owe $59B in US taxes

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vPvY4 TIL that William I's response to northern rebellion in England was to order the wholesale slaughter of the inhabitants of northern shires, and the burning of food, homes, crops, tools, and livestock so that survivors would freeze or starve