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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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OG411 TIL there is a rare phenomenon of lightning that strikes from the ground up into the sky
4A7N TIL that immediately after the founding of Israel on May 14, 1948, before their defense force was even founded, five Arab nations (Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan) declared war on it
Y697 TIL that David Bowie was so zonked out on drugs that he barely remembers making his album “Station to Station.”
PY4Ln TIL that even though both actors were in the same film (The Godfather Part 2), played in films with similar genres and are regarded as good friends since before their success, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino would not appear in the same scene together until starring in Heat in 1995.
wpl1 TIL Before WWI virtually no women shaved their legs, however by 1964 nearly 98% of women started to do so. Since many males were fighting overseas corporations started marketing razors towards women.