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TIL The IRS has a contingency plan in the event of nuclear war to continue collecting taxes

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ne4Ro TIL the inventor of the commercial airliner also started a cult, based in part around the doctrine that the Earth sucks nutrients from outer space into itself via a hole at the North Pole and subsequently expels them from a huge anus at the South Pole.
XE4PR TIL The African Lungfish has the ability to survive outside of water for up to a year.
eZLL TIL that there exists a chemical compound so volatile that it will set fire to literally everything. Except candle wax.
R7wA4 TIL - of Jann Mardenbourough - He had only ever played Sony Gran Turismo online. In a Gran Turismo competition he beat out 90,000 contestants to win and, was so good Nissan gave him a job as a real race car driver
GwgJ TIL that Ryan Adams, was once requested to play “Summer of 69” at a concert. Ryan then ordered the lights turned on, found the fan who made the joke request, paid him $30 cash as a refund for the show, ordered him to leave, and said he wouldn’t play another note until he’d gone.