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

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XNE8 TIL: The patent for the Lego brick expired years ago, which is why copycat products like Mega Bloks are allowed to exist
Mennb TIL about 'The Lost Year.' On September 12, 1958 Gov. Faubus closed all Little Rock, Arkansas high schools for a year rather than allowing desegregation to continue. Teachers and administrators were required to fulfill their contractual obligations and appear for work in empty schools.
e0KbD TIL of Diego, the 'unstoppable sex tortoise' who is 100 years old, lives on the Galapagos archipelago, and has fathered over 800 tortoises
WkePL TIL that since 1814, the diamond-studded Iffland-Ring is hold by the "most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre"
ANrPx TIL Gino Bartali was a multiple pre WW2 Grand Tour winner and almost gave up cycling after his brother died whilst racing. During the war he used his fame and prestige to aid Jewish families elude capture. The BBC attributes him as saying "Some medals are made to hang on the soul, not the jacket."