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TIL the IRS doesn't care if you engage in bribery, as long as you pay taxes on it

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m1Xx TIL that the first Pong machine was constructed with a $75 Hitachi TV, and placed in a bar. Several days later, it broke down because the quarter bin had over-flowed and jammed up the mechanics.
woV0W TIL That the reason everything around you seems so quiet when there's snow on the ground is because snow absorbs up to 60% of all noise
R4vl TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.
P1NXL TIL that the Sacramento Kings are the oldest franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Founded in 1923 as the Rochester Seagrams, it predates the foundation of the NBA by 26 years.
wo876 TIL of Tank Man, a protester who tried to stop Chinese tanks moving through Tiananmen Square, has never been identified.