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TIL grain buyers are not required to issue 1099s to farmers for most sales.

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d81ar TIL the largest print photograph ever was created by using an airplane hangar as a pinhole camera. The finished print was more than 3,500 sq. feet
781jO TIL that clapping at the base of the Pyramid of Kukulkan produces an echo that sounds like the chirping of a Resplendent Quetzal, a bird that was sacred to the Maya culture.
GYVM7 TIL that Marie Skłodowska Curie, the first and only woman awarded twice a Nobel Prize, married with Pierre Curie (Nobel Prize for Chemisty), had a daughter that was awarded too, jointly with his husband in 1935. This made the Curies the family with the most Nobel laureates to date.
p8jMN TIL Nobel Prize-Winning physicist Richard Feynman put himself on the FBI's Do Not Call list
wLo5P TIL: In the 1960's A Russian writer wrote a book about earthlings who travel to the moon, only to discover a "western style" capitalism society, and spend the remains of the book "liberating" the moon inhabitants from the jaws of capitalism via you guessed it, communism