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TIL workers bear 70 percent of the corporate tax burden.

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xrJg TIL that the yiddish term farpotshket is used to describe something that is completely ruined as a result of someone trying to improve or fix it.
ZpDMa TIL that after a Dr Seuss cartoon featured a Flit insecticide sprayer, he landed an endorsement deal with the company for 17 years, which allowed Seuss and his family to get through The Great Depression.
KaeR TIL of ‘The World’ a cruise ship where residents can permanently live as it travels around the globe.
kO5b5 TIL The 1939 classic Gone with the Wind was the highest grossing movie in history until the Sound of Music broke the box office record in 1966. When Gone with the Wind was re-released in 1971 it regained the top spot until The Godfather sent it to "sleep with the fishes" the next year.
l7lL7 TIL about flavius aetius. A military commander considered to be the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire during the last phase of its decline and fall. He was most famously known for defeating Attila the Hun at the Battle of Catalaunian Fields. He was known was the last of the Roman’s.