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

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BryLK TIL the Haya People of Tanzania have been forging steel for over 2000 years. Investigation of their land led to the discovery of ancient furnaces that were then carbon dated and found to be around 2000 years old.
9j16 TIL a Ultracrepidarian is a person who has a habit of giving opinions and advice on matters outside of one’s knowledge
xRl5 TIL that Whitey Bulger, the notorious gangster, had served time in the maximum security prison of Alcatraz for four years. Later, while on the lam as one of America’s most wantef federal fugitives, he went back to tour the facility.
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