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TIL the states of Alabama, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas officially recognize Confederate Memorial Day as a state holiday.

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owpL TIL that ransom payments to a kidnapper are tax-deductible in the United States.
6yaJ TIL North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il was claimed to complete a 72 par course in 34 strokes, managing a world record five holes-in-one, making him the best golfer in the history of the world. It was also apparently the first time he has ever golfed.
WkoYB TIL that Euler's work in mathematics and physics touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
j6LjM TIL that, after spending 5 days reviewing the case of the infamous "Toy Box Killer", the FBI Agent assigned to the case, Patty Rust, went home, took out her service pistol, and shot herself in the head.
yLWw TIL NBC’s Dateline aired a segment showing gas tanks on General Motors pickup trucks tended to explode on even low-speed impacts. G.M. responded with an investigation showing that Dateline had rigged explosions in the show by affixing model-rocket engines to a truck’s underbody.