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TIL: Alaska’s oil tax credit program will pay more in corporate subsidies to small oil and gas companies than the state is forecast to collect in total oil production taxes.

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Oag1 TIL 65 nations refused to participate in the 1980 Summer Olympic Games to protest the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Afghanistan wasn’t one of them, sending 11 athletes to compete.
gMEn9 TIL, caffeinated bees are busier but not more productive.
ONWL TIL that Volvo plans for no one to be killed or seriously injured in one of their new cars by 2020.
R57M9 TIL: Observing Ramadan in northern communities can be much easier or much more difficult depending on time of year (in terms of fasting between sunrise and sunset).
wLJRE TIL the Psychedelic Frogfish, first scientifically described in 2009, has a number of colorful, kaleidoscopic stripes arranged in a fingerprint pattern. The fish lives among the similar-appearing coral rubble around Ambon Island, Indonesia where it can hide by crawling into narrow crevices.