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

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e0b8g TIL Muhammad Ali talked a suicidal man off the ledge in 1981 and stopped him from taking his own life
5VBQp TIL a wealthy building contractor who stormed the Bastille had miniature Bastilles made from the prison walls and sent all around France.
0NLA TIL that Adam Adamowicz, the designer of the “Dragon” language in the popular video game Skyrim, has died of lung complications in Feb,2012
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