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TIL Abraham Lincoln signed into a law that began the IRS and was the USA’s first income tax. It was done to help pay for civil war expenses

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kJkXd TIL Norah Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shankar who played with The Beatles
W7VO9 TIL that The aardwolf, a member of the hyena family, feeds mainly on termites and has teeth adapted for eating them, which are not capable of chewing meat.
XE5k8 TIL Height strips on convenience store doors were first used to help witnesses judge the height of a robber, but today they are used as psychological deterrents.
QNyya TIL if you bought a lottery ticket in 16th Century England it came with the added bonus of being a 'get out of jail free card'. Every participant was granted immunity from one arrest, as long as the crime wasn't extremely serious, like murder or treason.
GmMN TIL a 2006 study at McGill University found that women watching sexual imagery reach physical arousal as quickly as men and are sexually aroused by a greater range of images than men