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TIL The U.S. home ownership rate is at a 48-year low.

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VvAG TIL Between 2012 and 2014 France had a 75% super tax on earnings above €1m
NXLoM TIL Venus Fly Traps are exclusively found in the wild in the Carolina states, specifically around the Carolina Bays, and due to poaching for export/resale and inability to clear underbrush that eventually smothers the low-dwelling carnivorous plants, they are now endangered.
rKnw TIL that when the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act was passed, only the birdseed industry successfully lobbied against it by arguing that hemp seeds gave birds shinier feathers than other seeds. Because of this, birdseed producers are legally allowed to import hemp seeds into the US (deactivated) today.
GYRm1 TIL that NASA makes a movie poster every time the send an expedition to the international space station. Some of the themes are The Matrix, Star wars and Pirates of the Caribbean.
avJ0 TIL Artist Damien Hirst set an art auction record by selling one of his works for $19 million in 2007. The entire work is just a glass case with some random pharmaceutical pills in it.