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TIL that those companies advertising, “settle your IRS debt for pennies on the dollar” are basically charging you a fee to fill out a form to apply for a government program they hope you don’t know about.

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e0kn6 TIL The original reason no photography was allowed in the Sistine Chapel is because Nippon TV of Japan obtained exclusive photographic, film and television rights in exchange for funding the chapels restoration project (3 million). The rights expired in 1997 but the ban is still upheld today.
5VdDP TIL the piña colada's creation/origin is hotly contested and claimed by the restaurant Barrachina (in 1963) and the Caribe Hilton Hotel (in 1954), both located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, a cocktail book by a London Hotel included the drink. This book was published in 1930.
Dvov TIL Richard the Lionheart had 3,000 captured Muslim prisoners (including large numbers of women and children) taken to a hill. There, in full view of Saladin and his army, they were beheaded and disemboweled. Even in an age of atrocities, this was an act of exceptional and shocking barbarity.
nn8P TIl Politicians in the US gov spend $50,000 (each) of taxpayer’s money on self portrait oil paintings.
DQ74e TIL that 1/3 of Finnish population died of starvation due to famine during 1695-1697 making it one of the most devastating famines per capita ahead of Irish potato famine or Great Leap Forward famine in China. People resorted to eating Pine bark and their dead family members