Post * OPaY — Curious Curator

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TIL that a “mail-order church” fought the IRS for tax-exempt status for 17 years. Status was granted in 2000. In 2007, the “church” earned $6 million per month, mostly by targeting low income and elderly persons who were told that donations are required to have their prayers answered.

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M7gba TIL there was a scholarship named by a mother for her son, serial killer Harvey Glatman

Klew TIL the largest denomination of the US dollar is the Ben Franklin $100 bill because the Nixon administration discontinued all larger denominations in 1969, arguing that the move would make it more difficult for drug traffickers to transport and launder their profits.

9YXG6 TIL that koalas are not bears but marsupials

WkGO4 TIL that Father's Day sees the most collect calls

o0DR TIL that billionaire Richard Branson suffered from dyslexia and was a poor academic student who only went to school until he was 16. On his last day there his headmaster told him he Would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.