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TIL: 51% of American households pay no income tax

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JMM8 TIL that the doctoral dissertation of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, surpassed the intellect of his professors at the University of Michigan, presenting a problem they simply could not figure out.
wLvw6 TIL an off duty border patrol agent started an Arizona wildfire by shooting a crate of explosives in dry grass. The gender reveal party started a wildfire that consumed 47,000 acres and cost 8.2million USD to put out.
g8KD TIL that some dogs that fail seeing-eye school go to work as bomb-sniffers for the ATF
b6JN9 TIL Lyndon Baines Johnson was the last US President (as of 18/11/23) to die who was from the Democratic Party, January 22, 1973, 50 years ago.
X0PYP TIL that poet and cartoonist Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree) was also a frequent writer and illustrator for Playboy. His biographer believes he had sex with hundreds or thousands of women over the course of many visits to the Playboy mansion.