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TIL the IRS uses 56 year old software to receive taxpayer data and dispense refunds.

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Q0Ga TIL Robert Ballard’s mission to find the Titanic, was actually a secret Cold War mission to find and investigate wrecked nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion. They finished earlier, so they spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and found it.
eBEg TIL a software company buried a $1,000 prize deep in its Terms of Service to see if anyone actually read them. After 5 months and over 3,000 sales, someone finally asked about the prize
ByZx TIL Weird Al Yankovic started a Volcano Worshippers Club in high school just to get an extra picture of himself in the yearbook.
4XDGb TIL that there is a poem written in 1936 by David Shulman called Washington Crossing the Delaware, a 14-line rhyming sonnet in which every line is an anagram of the title
441R TIL the world could run out of helium in 25 years…bad news for MRI machines, radiation detection machines and clowns