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TIL: Prostitutes are expected to report their wages to the IRS and to file their taxes

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XEGr6 TIL Concorde burned up 94 tonnes of fuel getting from London to New York and a whopping 2 tonnes simply taxiing onto the runway
j6wEn TIL The billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig created the Jari Project, a 4 million acres paper pulp farm/factory/planned community in Brazil in 1967. By 1981 Ludwig divested himself of the expensive failing project. The Jari Project was just down stream from Henry Ford's failed Fordlandia rubber farm.
yODX TIL in a scene in the sitcom Three’s Company, John Ritter’s scrotum falls out of his shorts. Nickelodeon deleted the scene for reruns. In response, Ritter said: “I’ve requested that (Nickelodeon) air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t.”
oer TIL there was a Eurozone of the 19th century: the Latin Monetary Union. With many of the same countries, plus Switzerland! It dissolved mainly because of the weak Greek economy & unwitting bailouts of France and Italy.
5VoPD TIL that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) receives approximately $1.2 billion annually from the federal government, funded by Canadian taxpayers. This accounts for about 70% of its total budget.