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TIL Government has thought about making taxes easier; but hasn’t due to tax preparation lobby.

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5ogR TIL that Leonardo Da Vinci could draw forward with one hand while writing backward with the other.
4XJ45 TIL that in 19th Century London, John Chadwick obsessively believed that cholera was caused by 'bad air' and his actions to 'cure' it lead directly to the additional deaths of fourteen thousand Londoners
j7mR TIL That the Chinese Han empire was aware of the Roman empire and they sent envoys to each-other.
ORj1 TIL that Tasmanian Devils are on the verge of extinction due to a transmissible facial cancer that appeared only 21 years ago
GpN7 TIL in the 19th Century the German-Jewish poet Heine once wrote that “Where one burns books, there one will also burn people.” His works were later burned under Hitler’s rule.