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TIL that ransom payments to a kidnapper are tax-deductible in the United States.

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QNLEp TIL Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, the person who played the child in "Boyhood," uses the singular they pronoun and rejects the gender binary. "For me, the binary gender demarcation always has felt just kind of like … a charade, like this character that I have to play."
yQXnX TIL Paranormal psychic believers and skeptics showed no differences on tasks of memory distortion, autobiographical memory distortion, or working memory capacity. But skeptics consistently outperformed believers on several tasks tapping analytical or logical thinking as well as vocabulary.
X0M08 TIL Instead of calling overprotective parents “Helicopter Parents”, people in Sweden call them “Curling Parents”
ANo1o TIL that the youngest person ever executed was 9-year old John Dean in 1629, who was accused of setting fire to two barns/houses in the nearby town of Windsor and was subsequently indicted, arraigned, and convicted on the same day, and was "hanged accordingly".
yVlbv TIL that Sylvester Stallone claims he remembers several past lives including one in which he was beheaded by a guillotine.