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TIL South Park did a Scientology episode the credits all said John Smith or Jane Smith to avoid personal lawsuits

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R4vl TIL The U.S. is the world’s only industrialized nation that taxes citizens who live overseas, even if their income is generated in a foreign country and they never return to America.
gMbyW TIL That Israel made a reform requiring food companies to mark high sugar and fat percentages on the package with red stickers
8oEP TIL that Simon & Garfunkel’s first album was so unsuccessful that the duo split. Their producer took one of the songs from the album, overdubbed and remixed it without their knowledge or permission, and after this version of “The Sounds of Silence” became a hit, they reunited for four more albums.
wr5J TIL: Nintendo made a hands free controller for the NES, the A & B buttons were activated by blowing & sucking, while the D pad was controlled with the users tongue.
v1ODr TIL that an African American secret service agent that guarded JFK was arrested and imprisoned on bribery charges in 1964. Coincidentally he was going to tell the Warren Commission that his fellow agents were intoxicated most of the time and had a lackadaisical approach to their job