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TIL In Iceland, there is an elf whisperer who inspects construction sites before building to ensure no elves are hanging around.

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4k985 TIL An award worth between 15 and 30 percent of the total proceeds that IRS collects will be paid, if the IRS moves ahead based on the information provided. Under the law, these awards will be paid when the amount identified by the whistleblower is more than $2 million.
laPG TIL Seattle had a “real” super villain, Rex Velvet, who was “captured” by a Make A Wish recipient who wished to be a secret agent
OOO7 TIL that in the 1930s, to control prices, govt placed caps on how much a farmer could produce, claiming that a farmer growing more than that cap, even just to feed his family, was “interstate commerce” because NOT having to buy grain to feed his family would affect prices - the Supreme Court agreed!
0w1Zv TIL that Ruth Ellis was the last woman to be hung in Great Britain, being sentenced to the gallows in 1955 for the murder of her lover after becoming embittered by his cheating ways
woV1o TIL of Alice Nutter, an English woman who was hanged after a 9 year old accused her of being a witch