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TIL scientists have revived 1,500 year old Antarctic moss in a laboratory

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16BLr TIL the land bought for Disney World in Florida is the same size as Paris, France
loBK TIL If you are an artist in Ireland, you don’t have to pay income taxes
L5L9 TIL - The phrase regarding poisoned Kool-Aid is incorrect, as the mass-suicide was done drinking cyanide-laced cherry-flavored “Flavor Aid”.
Br4ab TIL Officials in Athens, Greece conducted helicopter & satellite audits to determine less than 0.02% of residents claimed their pools to avoid paying taxes. Greeks consider not paying tax to be ‘Patriotic’, a nod to a time when they were ruled by the Ottoman Turks, almost 200 years ago.
e0oob TIL about a company called Aereo that leased individual antennas and DVRs situated in a remote warehouse. This allowed users to access broadcast TV over the internet. Cable companies sued and the Supreme Court shut them down