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TIL Ireland limits taxation on writers, artist, composers, painters, etc. for their contribution to culture

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wok0P TIL Shanghai's waterfront has 26 various buildings of different architectural styles including Gothic, Baroque, Romanesque, Classicism and the Renaissance built under British control. Asia's leading cosmopolitan and thriving financial center, all tenants on the Bund were purged in 1949
6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.
G774 TIL that JK Rowling was turned down by 12 publishers and told to get a job before finaly finding a publisher for Harry Potter
KOrXJ TIL Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a writer on the revival of Veronica Mars.