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TIL American Olympians get taxed if they win a medal.

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GYQb7 TIL that a DC man with the license plate “NO TAGS” has received $20,000 in tickets due to his plates being the same phrase police use to ticket unregistered cars.
nKw9 TIL a term for gay used to be “Friend of Dorothy”. In the 80s , the Navy believed that there actually was some woman named Dorothy at the center of a massive ring of homosexual military personnel, so they launched an enormous and futile hunt for the elusive “Dorothy”.
nWpJd TIL about Jeanna Giese, the first person to survive a rabies infection without first having received an anti-rabies vaccine. Since then, doctors have saved some other people using the protocol they developed when saving Giese.
xk6B TIL Jaffa Cakes avoided paying UK value added tax by presenting a giant Jaffa Cake to the court proving they were, in fact, cakes and not biscuits
KgkG TIL 45 American politicians have been assassinated, with Democrats suffering 19 losses compared to the Republican’s 8