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TIL that in the USA, ransom payments to kidnappers are tax-deductible.

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8ekPK TIL, in my first-time post you all, there are 5 types of color-blindness
LQ0ZZ TIL that mad Swiss novelist Robert Walser hand-wrote his later novels in “Microscripts”, such difficult microscopic pencil script that it took years after his death to decipher them. It didn't help that he spent the last 3 decades of his life in a mental institution, suffering from schizophrenia.
OGMwR TIL of a dog that was given plastic surgery to increase its quality of life and potential for rehoming after its nose was disfigured in a skirmish due to lack of food
gZ9b TIL in ancient Persia, engineers built a type of evaporative cooler that could store ice, even in the middle of summer. It is called a Yakhchal.
QJyJE TIL that during WWII, American soldiers fighting in the pacific would often mutilate Japanese soldiers and keep their limbs as souvenirs or war trophies. President Roosevelt was even gifted a letter opener made from the arm of Japanese soldier.