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VDB8 TIL that only about 1% out of 1.25 billion people in India pay taxes
GVK1 TIL Nikola Tesla planned to secretly experiment on children, lining the walls of schoolrooms with high-voltage lines, believing that exposing them to the energy would make them healthier and smarter, and he believed every home in the future would soon do likewise.
QNjX9 TIL that in the 1960s many children’s TV animations were crafted entirely with paper and scissors
oG7o TIL there is an island in the Scottish Hebrides that is owned entirely by its people. With a population of 83, the Isle of Eigg has been owned by its community since being bought in 1997, after decades of issues with absentee landlords, and generates 100% of its electricity using renewable energy
4X61R TIL all proceeds made by Bad Wolves' rock cover of "Zombie" are being donated to the children of Dolores O'Riordan, the late singer of The Cranberries.