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TIL if you work for the Federal government and own an airplane, you can get reimbursed mileage if you travel in your privately owned airplane at a rate of $1.76 per mile (as of Jan 1, 2024).

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lg75 TIL there’s a museum in Massachusetts dedicated to art “too bad to be ignored”. A painting was stolen, and a reward was set at $6.50 (raised to $36.73)
ydvJ TIL Katharine Lee Bates, author of ‘America the Beautiful’ was a lesbian who left the Republican party in 1924 over its growing xenophobia
J8Xk TIL that the soviets launched an 80 tonne orbiting battle station equipped with a megawatt laser. It fell to Earth due to faulty guidance systems.
D1Exr TIL: In the "Greatest Hits" version of the PS1 Spider-Man game, the cheat code menu was removed. This was because developers realized that the cheat to play as Mary Jane would result in the final cutscene featuring a long lesbian kiss between Mary Jane and herself.
16aoP TIL that the Korean War never ended. Although the fighting between North and South Korea and their respective allies ended in July 1953 when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed, no peace treaty was ever signed, and the two Koreas are technically still at war, engaged in a frozen conflict.