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TIL: The IRS could automatically file your taxes for you, but tax preparation companies (Intuit, Turbotax) lobbied against its use

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P6re TIL that the infinity sign is also called the “lemniscate”
69p7 TIL that a Uranium deposit in Africa naturally developed criticality and produced fission power for hundreds of thousands of years. It was a “natural nuclear reactor”.
0j11 TIL Mary Anning was an English woman who discovered dinosaur fossils, was the first to assemble a full skeleton of an Ichthyosaur, a self-taught scientist, a business owner, confirmed the existence of the Pterodactyl, and one of the founders of Paleontology.
15ZX TIL 95% of the ocean is unexplored.
NXQJE TIL in 2014 Meryl Streep attacked Walt Disney for being “a bigot” while presenting the Best Actress award to Emma Thompson for “Saving Mr. Banks”, a Disney film about Walt Disney. Streep referenced a rejection letter in 1938 from Disney informing a female applicant that “girls are not considered”.