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TIL- Most elephants weigh less than the tongue of a blue whale.

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Ny48 TIL that in 1987 the IRS required tax payers to list the SSNs of child they claimed as a dependent. As a result 7 million children vanished from tax returns.
P5gG TIL that two brothers vandalized wikipedia, giving an animal a fake nickname. This nickname ended up being picked up by news sources and becoming a real one.
bBkj TIL Apple computers are a rarity in Japan
l7PwN TIL that Stan Lee, inventor of Marvel Comics, and Theodore Geisel, aka Dr.Seuss, served together in the Army Training Film Division during WW2.
0BRy TIL Thomas Paine proposed a “Citizen’s Dividend” upon the principle that the natural world is the common property of all persons so all citizens receive regular payments (dividends) from revenue raised by leasing or taxing the monopoly of valuable land and other natural resources…