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TIL people in the other states use the phrase “Thank God for Mississippi” when referring to embarrassing statewide statistics

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Br4ab TIL Officials in Athens, Greece conducted helicopter & satellite audits to determine less than 0.02% of residents claimed their pools to avoid paying taxes. Greeks consider not paying tax to be ‘Patriotic’, a nod to a time when they were ruled by the Ottoman Turks, almost 200 years ago.
bda4 TIL: A company in Hong Kong once attempted to release a version of Tamagotchi where you would take care of gang member, instead of feeding and playing with him, you’d make him smoke, drink alcohol, and enter knife fights.
vPKjL TIL Georgia O'Keeffe's husband advertised her flower paintings as looking like genitalia, but she denied it and considered the sexual interpretation degrading.
5V5e9 TIL Whitney Houston had a production company called BrownHouse, which produced films like The Princess Diaries and The Cheetah Girls
EdQW TIL in 1993 Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders recommended that the Government study the idea of legalizing drugs and suggested that doing so might reduce violent crimes. She was fired about a week later by President Clinton.