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TIL that 285,000 companies including Apple, Coca-Cola, GE, Google, and Walmart are officially headquartered at 1209 North Orange Street, Wilmington, Delaware due to the state’s low corporate tax rates.

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nWlZb TIL about Bill Blackbeard, the man who saved comics, literally. It is estimated he saved 350,000 Sunday strips and 2.5 million dailies in the 1990s.
Zp9A4 TIL: Apples are not native to North America. They originated in Kazakhstan, in central Asia east of the Caspian Sea. The capital of Kazakhstan, Alma Ata, means “full of apples.” By 1500 BC apple seeds had been carried throughout Europe. The Greeks, Etruscans, and Romans cultivated apples.
LkrQ TIL that speakers of the tonal language Mandarin are 10x more likely to develop perfect pitch than native English speakers (bottom graph page 5).
YpLNv TIL that when Steven Spielberg re-enrolled at California State, Long Beach to earn his BA more than 30 years after dropping out, he was given three course credits in paleontology for making Jurassic Park.
X05rX TIL that the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall is almost wholly responsible for a tremendous increase in the popularity of straight razors.