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TIL For Decades, Southern States Considered Thanksgiving an Act of Northern Aggression

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J1bJB TIL grain buyers are not required to issue 1099s to farmers for most sales.
epMP4 TIL in 1991, the Criterion Collection released the first three 007 films on laserdisc, featuring extensive crew commentary. Almost immediately, all remaining copies were recalled by Criterion due to the content of those commentaries, including insults to cast and crew and casual sexism and racism.
OGGy4 TIL There's a medical procedure that involves inserting a catheter into an artery in the leg to reach the brain. a dye is then injected and an x ray is performed. this is done on no/local anasthesia. it's called a cerebral DSA
R79l TIL that in the United States, possession of child pornography often results in a harsher sentence than actually molesting a child would
P191n TIL that there's a death metal band called Hatebeak. Their vocalist is named Waldo, and he's a parrot.