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TIL the IRS still operates largely on mainframe computers running 60 year old code

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Br7vr TIL: A British man lived in the Alps as a goat for three days and won the Ig Nobel Prize for his efforts.
6E64Q TIL about the Shope papilloma virus, a virus that can cause rabbits to grow "horns" on their head. This may have led to the myth of the jackalope
kJ7Dm TIL the famous "Tank man" from the tiananmen square protests was never identified.
rRZwo TIL according to some European folklore, people born on Saturday were believed to be able to see vampires even if they were invisible and were best suited to become vampire hunters.
W7yN9 TIL that almost 100,000 Vietnamese "volunteers" served on the western front during WW1