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TIL that there's a stonehenge at the bottom of Lake Michigan

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6eZ TIL that, unlike other professions in the USA, members of the Clergy can opt-out from Social Security, and 30% do. Many who opt-out from paying into the system have been let back in to collect benefits when they retire.
mRXR TIL There’s an episode of Married with Children that Fox refused to air. The plot revolved around Al/Peg making a sex tape and Marcy/Steve making a sex tape. The episode was produced in 1988 but did not air for the first time until cable syndication in 2002. Even now, the reruns are heavily edited.
yZeV TIL that there is a law in São Paulo that prohibits advertising such as that of outdoor posters.
GMPN TIL Adolphe Sax (inventor of the saxophone) survived a three story fall, a gunpowder explosion, drinking a bowl of sulfuric water, a near-poisoning due to furniture varnish, and falling into a speeding river - all before the age of nine. His neighbors called him “little Sax, the ghost.”
loLJ5 TIL that Hideo Kojima named Hal 'Otacon' Emmerich after Independence Day director Roland Emmerich