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TIL that in Singapore, parents can count as dependents when filing for taxes

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8e81b TIL about Nahwa, a village in the UAE that is an enclave within a territory of Oman that is itself an enclave within the UAE. Such a territory is called a "counter-enclave".
78M7X Til that by 1910, 10% of tuberculosis cases were caused by raw milk consumption, and by 1938 25% of all food/waterborne disease was linked to unpasteurized milk, regardless of farm hygiene or symptomatic status of the animal. This predates factory farming.
Adox TIL After a 1942 shipwreck off Newfoundland, locals having never seen blacks before tried to scrub clean those survivors thinking they were covered in oil
RrOl TIL there is a hotel that has been open for business for the past 1,308 years
v1xD8 TIL of the Lululemon murder. The victim Jayna Murray was great and stabbed at least 322 times and the medical examiner said she was likely for most of it. She had 107 defensive wounds alone. The murderer killed her because she got caught stealing a pair of pants.