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TIL The IRS has a plan in its employee handbook how to collect taxes following a nuclear attack

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R5WXl TIL *NSYNC is spelled with the last letters of the band members’ first names.
OGDV1 TIL Mia Frye was responsible for choreographing the dance routine in the music video for the hit song "Macarena"
yEnw TIL A soldier once returned from deployment to find his wife had died and his young children had starved to death.
noWr TIL The earth is so large that it would take 32 hours to free fall to the core.
VBwYZ Today I learned Tabula rasa (blank slate) is the theory that individuals are born without built-in mental content and therefore all knowledge comes from experience or perception, which is in direct contrast to Innatism which is the idea that the mind is born with ideas, knowledge, and beliefs.