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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.

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XEO0k TIL A medical research team in the United States attempted to set up extensive research into the effects of steroids on weightlifters and throwers, only to discover that there were so few who weren't taking them that they couldn't establish any worthwhile comparisons.
Z0yp TIL in 1726 a woman put body parts from dead animals in her vagina to trick physicians in to believing she birthed rabbits
kON4E TIL Isaac Newton spent 50 years (and wrote 4,500 pages) trying to predict the date for the end of the world using a biblical code. He finally settled on 2060 and this was not known for over 250 years until his papers on the issue were found in a trunk in at the house of the Earl of Portsmouth.
1aGOW TIL of "Steal This Book", an instruction manual by Abbie hoffman on, among other things, shoplifting, fare evasion, and protesting. 30 publishers refused to print it, and many book stores refused to sell it because people were shoplifting the book, as the title suggested.
kOlb4 TIL that more people in the US speak Spanish than in Spain