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TIL California has a free, online, state-run program that will do your taxes for you, and I didn’t know about it because the people I pay to file my taxes have fought to keep it hidden.

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1gOO TIL that, except under exceptional circumstances, drug testing for employment is not allowed in Canada, because it does not respect the Canadian Human Rights Act.
06Vp TIL in 1999 chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov played The World in a game of chess that lasted over four months. Over 50,000 people from more than 75 countries participated in the game with moves being decided by majority vote. Garry ended up winning on turn 62 when 51% of The World decided to resign.
D1aWg TIL that a 10 year old girl from USA wrote a letter to Soviet leader Andropov concerning nuclear holocaust. She was then invited by him and went to USSR. She died 2 years after her return in a plane crash.
oBavK TIL that Prudence Crandall, born on September 3, 1803, was an American schoolteacher and activist who is credited with running the first integrated school in the United States as well as running the first school for black girls in America.
4XP55 TIL that Paul Simon listed "Fakin' It" as being 2:74 because radio stations wouldn't play anything listed at over 3 minutes long