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TIL New Jersey lost $140M in tax revenue after a hedge fund billionaire moved to Florida.

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lXLr TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”
mx7aP TIL the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is part of the Department of Commerce because President Nixon's Secretary of the Interior publicly criticized the administration's Vietnam War policy. Nixon punished him by putting the new agency under a different department.
NXVaE TIL about medical maggot teabag therapy - Maggot bags are used to clean away dead tissue while ignoring living flesh, while secreting antimicrobial molecules that disinfect the wound. They are proving useful against the rise of bacteria that's resistant to several widely used antibiotics.
ne4W9 TIL that the ‘104 days of summer vacation’ referenced in the Phineas and Ferb cartoon song was used because co-creator Dan Povenmire only expected the show to last 52 episodes, like most Disney Channel shows lasted at the time, and there were two segments per episode, making it 104.
8wLX TIL that after the drummer of The Who passed out during a live performance in 1973, the lead singer asked if anyone could fill in. 19 year old Scot Halpin stepped up to the plate. They pulled him on stage and he finished the remaining 3 songs. He hadn’t played drums in over a year.