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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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d84M7 TIL associative memory survives metamorphosis in moths/butterflies (Lepidoptera). Meaning moths and butterflies remember aspects of caterpillar-life, despite effectively turning to goo in the metamorphosis.
kOvQ4 Today I learned that Rick Riordan hated the Percy Jackson movies so much, he wrote a letter warning teachers not to show them in class
kjlE TIL , On his 29th Birthday Sylvester Stallone had only $106 in his bank account , which he later spend on watching a fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner who inspired the movie and Balboa’s underdog personality in Rocky.
BgK0W TIL Jurassic Park (1994) animators took mime classes to better understand dinosaur movement.
0Kr1 TIL the Old Testament alludes the existence of multiple gods, a practice called henotheism in which Yahweh (the supreme God) rules over lesser subordinate gods (Satan, Bethel, Chemosh, etc…)