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TIL That the IRS penalizes individuals for underpayment of estimated taxes. The penalty may apply even if the IRS owes you a refund.

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9YV4p TIL Great Britain sold much of their American investments, and borrowed currency from Wall Street and the American government for the war effort in World War 1 (WWI). In 1931, 4.4 billion USD was still owed. The last payment on that debt was made nearly a century after the war's end, in 2015.
BrDQy TIL that the Bambiraptor, a dinosaur that evolved late in the final era, sacrificed speed and size for a much larger brain, were arboreal, lived in packs, and had evolved opposable claws that operated with similar dexterity to ours. They just didn't get enough time to evolve.
5be9 TIL a Florida man was stranded on a sandbar with sharks circling around him. He kept them at bay with a fishing pole for an hour and a half, after which he remembered he had a cell phone and called for help.
RD44 TIL Robert Watson Watt, pioneer of Radar, was caught speeding at the age of 64, by a cop with a Radar gun.
AvGw TIL astronomer Carl Sagan was denied membership in the National Academy of Sciences, reportedly because his media activities made him unpopular with many other scientists.