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TIL that Warren Buffet submitted a $7 tax return when he was a teenager.

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mxV6E TIL of Drachten, a town in the Netherlands, where almost all traffic lights and signs have been removed in the town's centre in an effort to improve traffic safety, based on the theory that drivers pay more attention to their surroundings when they cannot rely on strict traffic rules.
AgNn TIL a space time capsule has been proposed that would carry messages from the citizens of present Earth to humanity 50,000 years from now, when it would re-enter Earth’s atmosphere.
kJVog TIL that the Three Gorges Dam in China has slowed the rotation of Earth and increased the total length of the Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds
1XPO TIL James Harrison aka The Man With the Golden Arm started donating blood regularly after age 18 and scientists found that his blood contains Rh (D) immune globulin or anti-D, which helps prevent fetuses who have Rhesus Disease. He has made over 1000 blood donations and saved 2,000,000 babies.
b1ya TIL that in 2007, Quebec police sent provocateurs disguised as demonstrators to a protest at the North American leaders summit in Montebello Quebec to incite a riot and justify dispersing the otherwise legal and constitutionally protected peaceful assembly.