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

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WkkRN TIL: Ben Franklin wrote about Native American Indians, captured and raised from a young age by colonists, would return to their tribes after a single conversation with them. And that whites captured and raised within American Indian culture would flee the colonists the first chance they got.
JYDGv TIL New Mexico is not named after Mexico. It was named Nuevo México after the Aztec Valley of Mexico by Spanish settlers, more than 250 years before the establishment and naming of the present-day country of Mexico.
gMgR8 TIL the last words of Roman Statesman Cicero were "There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly." as he was assassinated
1a74d TIL the parade scene in Ferris Bueller Day off was shot during the actual parade and Nobody knew what it was including all the people on the reviewing stand, including the governor.
MGP8 TIL that due to a small change in design during construction, the Hyatt Regency Walkway collapsed on its opening day killing 114 people.