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TIL: You can’t get a US passport if you owe more than $2,500 in child support in any US state.

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L9Gm TIL that because of Delaware, corporate transparency is essentially a joke in the US. Delaware gets a huge portion of the state budget from incorporations while asking little about the identity of the true owner which attracts major money laundering criminals from all over the world.
e0L0E TIL that in the USA, only 53% of Generation Z-ers (people born from 1997 onwards) identify as sports fans, compared to 63% of all adults and 69% of millennials. Generation Z-ers are half as likely as millennials to watch live sports regularly, and twice as likely to never watch
KOaGE TIL Cleopatra once boasted to Mark Antony that she could spend ten million sesterces on one dinner. During dessert, Cleopatra called for a goblet of vinegar. She removed a valubale pearl earring and dropped it in. The priceless jewel dissolved, and then Cleopatra drank the mixture.
R5Ndj Til about Prester John, the mythical Christian King who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient. Today, it is believed this Chrstian country may have been Ethopia.
Wk8NX Today I learned Marriott started as a root beer stand in 1927. It’s first hotel wasn’t built until 1957.