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TIL the IRS has instructions for employees on how to collect taxes after a nuclear war

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neW8r TIL Julia Child loved hotdogs
8eGa4 TIL in October 2004, it was reported that the Horniman Museum in London was failing to receive some of its email because filters mistakenly treated its name as a version of the words "horny man".
5YO1k TIL that during an experiment, chemist Karen Wetterhahn accidentally spilled two drops of organic mercury on her hand. That small amount of mercury would kill her in less than a year, despite her wearing gloves at the time and taking appropriate measures to clean herself up.
9wJW7 TIL the CEO of Toyota entered the 2009 24 Hours of Lemans under a fake name and drove 2 different Lexus race cars, coming in 3rd and 4th in class
j6MDQ TIL that footage from the video game Arma 3, a military sandbox game, has been mistaken for actual combat footage and has been used in news reports a number of times due to the realistic nature of the game.