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TIL that US Citizens living abroad and paying taxes where they live, still need to file with the IRS and pay taxes to the US

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9BAp TIL Max von Laue had his Nobel Prize gold medal melted down and put in a solution to be hidden from Nazis. It was recovered and re-cast after the war.
wLeNo TIL that months after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Fred Rodgers and Francois Clemmons worked together to show the word how to integrate swimming pools by soaking their feet in the pool together.
y1Qw TIL that a 59-year-old man entered a hospital complaining of chest pains, and was found to have a three-chambered reptilian heart, as opposed to a four-chambered mammalian one.
rEd4 TIL Americans didn’t lose their British accent, the British accent evolved; Brits used to sound more like Americans rather than vice versa.
x6Jg7 TIL the Minecraft Creeper was made by accident, it was supposed to be a pig "but Notch mixed the height and the width values".