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TIL TurboTax maker Intuit funnels millions to lobby AGAINST easier tax returns

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VnK8 TIL the only coup in the history of the United States took place in North Carolina in 1898. The plotters kidnapped the mayor of Wilmington and installed their own mayor.
m1xlR TIL a woman from IN named Linda Darby murdered her husband by poisoning, shooting, and burning his body 1970. Two years into a life sentence, she escaped prison and began a quiet life as Linda McElroy in TN, evading capture for 35 years before being caught again and sent back to prison in 2007.
m1NGM TIL, the color, magenta, is a fabrication of human psychology.
R5rWl TIL Jenette Goldstein played Vasquez in Aliens and John Conner's Stepmom in Terminator 2
yQgOJ TIL that Aboriginal Australians have the highest incarceration rate in the world.