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TIL Guy Fawkes is the reason guys are called “guys”

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yk6M TIL Whistle blower warned about NSA spying 9 months ago! (8:28)
L81p TIL The film Predator was originally written in responese to Rocky movies after people joked he was running out of people to box and would have to fight an alien next
nnM9 TIL the plot of the pilot episode of the show “The Lone Gunmen”, a spinoff of the X-Files, featured 3 conspiracy theorists thwarting a secret government plot to fly a plane into the World Trade Center and blame it on foreign interests in order to boost defense spending, it aired march 2001.
kJL1W TIL that there are 2 Dennis the Menaces (A UK and a US one) that were both published on the same day in a complete coincidence
N70xJ TIL illegal income (bribes, etc) are considered taxable income. Authorities can use this to go after people with diplomatic immunity since they are not immune from paying taxes.