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TIL that there is a group of US millionaires who want to be taxed at a higher rate in order to benefit the US economy. Patriotic Millionaires For Fiscal Strength

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xVayb TIL that back in 1984, religious fanatics in Iran sent children marching over minefields to clear them. They got plastic keys that would open the gates of heaven for them. Later, they also gave them blankets so corpse parts wouldn't be blown everywhere.
loXMr TIL EA had to do a mass recall of the video game 'Tiger Woods 99', because somebody hid an entire episode of South Park inside it
k8Xd TIL a man died while shooting a saguaro cactus with a shotgun when a 4 foot long arm he shot off fell on top of him.
moVo TIL that a complaint among test audiences for the film Good Night, and Good Luck, was that the actor playing Joseph McCarthy was too over the top and wasn’t believable, not realizing that the film used actual archive footage of McCarthy himself.
kXv1 TIL that in 1927 Charles D. B. King won the presidential election in Liberia when he got 234,000 votes against the opponents 9,000. There were 15,000 registered voters in Liberia at the time.