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TIL that the IRS has free online sites to do your taxes

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paxQ TIL there’s a mountain in Germany that has burned since 1688. The cause is still not totally known today.
jY9Q TIL that the Opium Wars were fought to allow the British to import Opium TO China.
9YE07 TIL John Graves (1572) wished burial within 20 feet of his church; his tombstone is now a in parking lot
wYaW TIL an electric bell has been running off the same battery for 170 years and no one knows what the battery is made of.
6ELAJ TIL of super volcanos, including the one in Yosemite National Park. These types are different from regular volcanos because they don’t have the typical steep sides and are instead depressions in the ground. They are thousands of times larger than any other volcanic eruption.