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TIL — $99,999,999.99 is the largest check the Internal Revenue Service will accept. Multiple checks must be written for tax payments of $100 million or more.

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pa5N TIL that an Oregon survey found that panhandlers outside of WalMart were making more than the employees working inside.
N709P TIL that President Nixon used the sonic booms of 3 SR-71 Black Birds to signal to American POW's in Hanoi that if they could escape and make it down the river, American forces would be there to rescue them.
x65Db TIL Sega accidentally made a Disney game in error. After the success of Castle Of Illusion, they released Fantasia but it turned out the license to adapt the movie was given by mistake as Walt Disney's nephew Roy promised not to adapt it.
oBgA TIL in 1984, to prove to people that leprosy is difficult to catch through close contact, Pope John Paul II kissed a number of lepers in a South Korean leper colony.
69vVW TIL that the coat of arms displayed on the Medieval Times location in Schaumburg, Illinois is that of Perelada, Spain, and the Viscounts Rocabertí, lords of Peralada Castle. The company founder, Jose Montaner, was uncle to the Count of Perelada, and incorporated stories from his family in shows.