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TIL That in 2006 H&R block announced that they had miscalculated their own state taxes, and owed $32 million from the IRS

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KOjgQ TIL If you sit at one place for hours (students, employees, truck drivers etc.), you have the risk of developing heart disease, obesity, diabetes, dementia, anxiety, indigestion, bad knees, cancer, bad back and it can shorten your life, EVEN if you workout several hours a day.
rREgd TIL Ireland's Gaelic royal families were not all wiped out by the English. Many were exiled to contiental Europe were they intermarried with royals in countries such as France and Spain. Many of their descendants became leaders in their new homes including French President Patrice de MacMahon
Wkjg4 TIL Planets and stars actually orbit around their common center of mass. This common center of mass is called the barycenter. As a result, the barycenter of Jupiter and the sun isn’t in the center of the sun. It’s actually just outside the sun's surface!
9wvep TIL the concept of sister cities originated in WW2 as a way of establishing solidarity between allied cities that had been devastated by fighting and air raids. The first 'twinned' cities were Coventry, England and Stalingrad in the Soviet Union in 1942 as both were extensively destroyed in the war
OG0R4 TIL Mormons enjoy Jell-O leading to the area of the US where they settled being named the "Jell-O Belt":