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TIL that the IRS defined the complexity of the tax code as the #1 most serious problem facing tax-payers.

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WRn4 TIL in 1897, a man was sentenced to life in prison for murdering his wife solely based on the testimony of his wife’s ghost who visited her mother in the night and detailed the crime.
awvOo TIL: The phrase 'Gung ho' was originally derived from a Chinese phrase meaning, 'Work Together.' When Marine advisers were sent to aid the Chinese Nationalist Army during WWII, the phrase wormed it's way into Marine lingo, and is still commonly used today.
gMjb9 TIL that Late last year, the Army launched an accelerated effort into training and equipping 26 of its 31 active combat brigades to fight in large-scale subterranean facilities that exist beneath dense urban areas around the world.
mxNRR TIL in 2005, Facebook approached artist David Choe him with a proposition, Facebook asked Choe to paint his famous murals on the office walls for $60,000 or company stock. Choe choice the stock and it's now estimated worth is $200,000,000
GErJ TIL Geraldo Rivera is largely responsible for the Satanic Ritual Abuse Panic of the late 1980’s