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The IRS uses two 58 year old computer systems for its Individual and Business Master Files, and they are written in assembly code, with data stored on tapes. The Individual Master File is the source where taxpayer accounts are updated, taxes are assessed, and refunds are generated.

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Jackie Kennedy was a polyglot, mastered French and speaking also some German and Italia as well as Spanish fluently. She taped radio ads in French, Italian and Spanish, urging the listeners to vote for her husband

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1. Green Day had the master tapes of one of their studio albums stolen, so they decided to abandon their initial work and start over. The resulting album? American Idiot.

2. Shortly before the release of the iconic Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations", the master recording tapes were stolen from the studio, only to mysteriously reappear in Brian Wilson's home two days later.

3. Due to a mix-up, the American company that produced the cartoon Voltron had received master tapes from a different Japanese show than requested. The producers liked this show better, and it became Voltron.

4. The Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the U.K." was re-recorded by all but one of the surviving members for Guitar Hero 3 because the original master tapes had been lost.

5. It is possible to hear parts of Sonic Youth's 1987 album 'Sister' in quiet sections of the band's 1994 album 'Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star', because it was recorded over the same master tapes.

6. In 2008, a fire swept across the back lot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroying dozens of master tapes from artists such as Nirvana, 2Pac, Elton John, Sonic Youth, etc.

7. The IRS uses two 58 year old computer systems for its Individual and Business Master Files, and they are written in assembly code, with data stored on tapes. The Individual Master File is the source where taxpayer accounts are updated, taxes are assessed, and refunds are generated.

8. There is a hidden city under Manchester, UK. Crypts, tunnels, a cemetery, bunkers even Joy Division's lost master tapes were among the discovered in the 18th Century subterranean network!