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TIL When Oprah gave each of her audience members a free car it came with an almost 7k gift tax.

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VRgm TIL an uncontacted tribe still inhabits an island in the Indian Ocean, living as simple hunter-gatherers. They are vigorously hostile to outsiders, and have not yet developed early technologies such as agriculture or writing.
W7dgA TIL before his comedy career, Chevy Chase was a drummer in the college band The Leather Canary, a group with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who would later go on to form Steely Dan.
VwdB TIL in 1985 Ryan White was refused re-entry to his school due to him having AIDS. 117 Parents and 50 teachers petitioned for his ban. People even cancelled their subscriptions as White was the paperboy and they believed they would be infected too.
Newe TIL that the London Underground has its own resident species of highly aggressive mosquito.
D6PD TIL - Studies have found female named hurricane’s kill more people than male named hurricanes because people don’t find them as intimidating and don’t take the proper precautions.