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TIL that the US publishes a quarterly list of names of people who renounced citizenship to "shame or embarrass" them

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6EM7 TIL that during a hurricane and its aftermath the two most purchased items in Wal-Mart are beer and strawberry pop tarts.
6EK57 TIL that one of JFK's favorite books begin with the funeral of Edward VII, at that point the world's largest gathering of world leaders for a state funeral. The first funeral to have more world leaders present was JFK's own burial.
rL7y TIL on March 9-10, 1945, 300 B29 bombers dropped nearly 500,000 cylinders of napalm and petroleum jelly on Tokyo creating a 40-sq-km firestorm that killed over 100,000 and maimed another million. It was the most destructive single bombing in history, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.
5GKQ TIL that teenager invented a push-button socket wrench and offered the patent to Sears. Sears told him the patent was valueless and gave him $10,000, then went on to make $44 million selling the ratchets.
NGEb TIL “The Hum” is a low frequency sound heard by about 10% of the population at night and on overcast days