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TIL: You can bring a cooked or uncooked turkey on a plane. Each airline has its own policy about live turkeys.

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wLX46 TIL: The IRS uses two 58 year old computer systems for its Individual and Business Master Files, and they are written in assembly code, with data stored on tapes. The Individual Master File is the source where taxpayer accounts are updated, taxes are assessed, and refunds are generated.
wLRZJ TIL - In 2010, French cuisine earned a spot on UNESCO's World Heritage List. The "gastronomic meal of the French" is alongside other embodiments of "intangible" cultural heritage, including Peking opera and Corsican polyphonic chant, on UNESCO's list celebrating world art forms and traditions.
N7n76 TIL about French Guiana, a department of the country of France in South America. Not a colony, it is the only territory of the mainland Americas to have full integration in a European country.
o7o8 TIL that the phrase “It’s on like Donkey Kong.” was actually trademarked by Nintendo in 2010.
E18wX TIL in 1883 Sitting Bull made a speech in Sioux, not English, to US officials, generals, and railroad barons that began: "I hate all the White people, you are thieves and liars," and got worse from there. He would stop periodically to smile and bow, and the audience applauded enthusiastically.