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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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QJE1d TIL Eminem set the Guiness World Record with “Rap God” for most words in a hit single. The song has a record breaking 1560 words in 6 minutes 4 seconds and averaging 4.28 words per second. One section of the song features 97 words in 15 seconds at 6.5 words per second.
WkX5d TIL: Tobacco use in Indonesia is almost entirely determined by gender: 76% of men smoke, while only 3.6% of women smoke.
5Vg0k TIL that just a few days after surviving the sinking of the Titanic, actress Dorothy Gibson starred in a silent motion picture short about the disaster called "Saved from the Titanic". Gibson even wore the same clothes she wore the night of the sinking to add to the films authenticity.
k004 TIL that 6 babies, the “Kaufering Babies”, were born to Jewish women imprisoned at the Dachau Concentration Camp in WW2 and survived thanks to the kindness of other Jewish prisoners.
8e4NK TIL that Sony Pictures abandoned plans to adapt Michael Lewis’ best-selling book Flash Boys into a movie due to concerns over having an Asian lead actor.