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TIL Boeing didn’t pay any taxes between 2008-2010 despite making $9.8b in profits, instead receiving tax rebates of $178m, laying off 14,862 workers, and increasing executive pay by 31%.

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kJVWm TIL Garth Brooks once tried to donate part of his liver to Rodeo man and country singer Chris LeDoux upon LeDoux's diagnosis with primary sclerosing cholangitis
jRpE TIL that urban crows drop their nuts at pedestrian crossings so that car tyres run over and break them, wait until the green pedestrian light, then cross to eat the broken nut.
lokW7 TIL that there is actually an “Old Zealand” that New Zealand is named for: It was the Dutch Maritime Province of Zeeland, located near modern Belgium.
loGY5 TIL that Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are the only two double landlocked countries in the world. A country is "doubly landlocked" or "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline)
Mempa Today I learned that there are something called "Binural Beats" that can help with headaches and stress relief in the form of music on YouTube.