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TIL: Benfords law is a logarithmic graph that can be found anywhere in the world. The IRS even uses it to detect tax fraud.

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v1maB TIL of the "Kentucky meat shower", occurring for several minutes on March 3, 1876, where what appeared to be flakes of red meat, approximately 2 by 2 inches, fell from the sky in a 100 by 50 yards area in Bath County, Kentucky.
5YJD9 TIL that in the Terminator 2 movie Linda Hamilton's double was played by her twin sister Leslie.
o6wr TIL: Designed by Benjamin Franklin, the first official American Cent was inscribed with the words “Mind Your Business”
lolmG TIL that over 1200 bones equaling to 15 bodies, 6 of them children, were found in Benjamin Franklin’s old home in London. Many Historians concluded that it was from an Anatomy School run by Franklin’s protege William Hewson.
W7YEN TIL that a scene from the film "The Rock" (1996) was the basis for incorrect and false descriptions of the Iraqi chemical weapons program.