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TIL that every quarter, the IRS publishes a list of people who willfully revoke their citizenship. And the list is sharply growing

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0mQj TIL that a clinical study on alcoholism that tracked 1,824 participants for 20 years revealed that heavy drinkers outlived non-drinkers, even when accounting for many other variables
amp0 TIL that our own Milky Way is home to around 300 billion stars
6M4J TIL that Tiger Woods does not own the rights to the name Tiger Woods. Nike does.
4XbJN TIL : California is an area where 2 major tectonic plates meet. Scientists say it's a tectonic time bomb because, if a large scale earthquake occurred in this fault, it will cause a devastating damage as it's a highly populated region.
Lk6k0 TIL while filming Armageddon Ben Affleck asked Michael Bay why they would train oil drillers as astronauts instead of the opposite to which Michael Bay told him to ‘shut the f*ck up’