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TIL that Thailand‘s King Vajiralongkorn inherited ~10 billion in 2016 while living in Bavaria, which should have triggered Germany’s 30% inheritance tax. But he was deemed immune as a foreign head-of-state after reportedly labeling his lakeside villa a “Thai Embassy”.

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