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0wRrj TIL the U.S. Congress passed a tax on long distance phone calls to pay for the Spanish-American War (1898). The war ended 4 months later, but the tax remained in place for over 100 years. On August 1, 2006, the IRS announced it would no longer collect the tax.
9YWrX TIL while making 2001 A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick wrote to a staffer asking if IBM were concerned that HAL was a psychotic computer. IBM wrote back explaining they were fine with it so long as IBM were not associated with any equipment failure.
E1ked TIL that the dog breed 'shih tzu' were bred for royalty in ancient China and where pets for many emperors.
J1M4B TIL Wendy's Fresh Never Frozen beef only applies to the contiguous US, Alaska, and Canada *it's at the bottom of the article
0QON TIL that there are bacterial life forms that live on pure electrons