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TIL That the Internal Revenue Service doesn’t lawfully exist. Congress never created it. The Dept. of Treasury created it via a Treasury Order, which was cancelled in 2005.

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QJjbe TIL pigeons are everywhere because humans domesticated them 10,000 years ago for food, and have since been using them for other things until they were abandoned and perfectly adapted for an urban environment
RZE6 TIL of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, who, during a 6 hour spacewalk on the ISS, nearly became the first man to drown in space when his helmet began to inexplicably fill with water.
7rALp TIL that the most commonly used mushrooms (white and brown button, portobello) are all the same mushroom at a different age!
16Jb7 TIL Korea has soy sauce older than USA
8OOG TIL that Jenna Miscavige Hill, daughter of Scientology leader David Miscavige, first learned of the church’s closely-guarded secret doctrines concerning aliens via the “South Park” episode “Trapped in the Closet”