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TIL that Anne Frank’s family was denied visas by the U.S. government because of stricter immigration policies.

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oBVeK TIL Jello Biafra, best known as the lead singer of the punk rock band Dead Kennedy’s, ran for the Green Party’s presidential nomination in 2000. Some of his ideas included lowering the voting age to 5 and abolishing the military.
QNRkM TIL Abraham Lincoln signed into a law that began the IRS and was the USA’s first income tax. It was done to help pay for civil war expenses
loDrA TIL there are portions of the oceans that are essentially deserts if you only look at the amount of rainfall they receive.
mx5dx TIL that Anonymous sent thousands of all-black faxes to the Church of Scientology to deplete all their ink cartridges.
WAMA TIL There are more payday loan stores in the US than McDonald’s and Taco Bells combined.