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TIL that, in Mexico, artists may pay their taxes with Artwork

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x6pM5 TIL that Netflix produced a show called "Blockbuster". It was a comedy about the last Blockbuster video store trying to convince the community that they provide something big corporations can’t - human connection. The show was canceled after one season.
PDPg TIL that chimpanzees fight wars like humans. Happend 1974-1978 in Gombe National Park. It is called the “Four Year War of Gombe”. Two parties fought, and one party won the war by extermination of the other. Jane Goodall observed this war and was frightend by the brutality.
9gEp TIL in Let it Be “Mother Mary” refers to Mary McCartney , Paul’s mother who died when he was 14. She would stop fights between Paul and his brother by telling them “Let it be, boys”. When it was written , the Beatles were constantly fighting with each other so Paul remembered his mother’s words
b1m0 TIL of a species of Sea Cow over 10 times the size of Manatees that Europeans hunted to extinction in just 27 years
PYk5J TIL Edward Doisy received the Nobel in Medicine for discovery of vitamin K with Henrik Dam. He also competed with Adolf Butenandt in the discovery of estrone in 1930. They discovered the substance independently, but only Butenandt was awarded the Chemistry Nobel