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TIL that in China, real-estate developers hire white people to boost businesses because they make “the place feel classier.”

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dkWr TIL workers bear 70 percent of the corporate tax burden.
VVxk TIL horses have the largest eyes of any land mammal, have excellent day and night vision, but they have two-color, or dichromatic vision; their color vision is somewhat like red-green color blindness in humans, where certain colors, especially red and related colors, appear as a shade of green.
GY8og TIL there were plans to have a spinoff show of "The Office" with Dwight Schrute running a bed-and-breakfast and beet farm. It was never picked up, but the pilot was filmed and later added into the ninth season of the show, titled "The Farm".
LQpVQ TIL that the architect Erno Goldfinger threatened to sue Ian Fleming over his name being used for the novel. Fleming responded that he might then, accidentally let the name slip to Goldprick here and there in the book.
5Y0nR TIL a species of dolphin has twice as many brain neurons as a human brain.