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TIL that H&R Block owns the trademark for the GIF file format.

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Oo7G7 TIL that Stiga, which I only knew as a Sweden table tennis products company, is actually multinational company headquartered in Italy which mainly manufactures gardening tools
j6yKa TIL that, in Ancient Rome, in 9 AD, under the Lex Papia Poppaea, celibate persons had to pay higher taxes and were banned from inheriting
BrZyL TIL Over-cooking hard boiled eggs will typically result in a thin green iron(II) sulfide coating on the yolk. This reaction occurs more rapidly in older eggs as the whites are more alkaline.
g5m9 TIL The once widespread West African black rhino was declared extinct 3 years ago. The reason for extinction was poaching by humans.
x696o TIL that both India and Pakistan had British Colonial officers as their Commander in Chief of their respective armies until 1951.