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TIL about Francis Marion, an American Patriot in SC who attacked British supply lines and harassed enemy communications then eluded capture through the swamps.

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PbYE TIL A bank in Utah was made using parcel post delivered bricks, around one ton of bricks sent a day. After the building was completed, the regulations were changed, with the post office claiming “It is not the intent of the post office that buildings be sent through mail.”
78yRp TIL the term 'jaywalking' was promoted and popularized by the automobile industry to blame pedestrians for traffic issues
Q7mk TIL only two groups of people in Sparta could have their names inscribed on their tombstones: women who died in childbirth and men who fell in combat.
KAM6 TIL: In Old English, males were referred to as, “wer” and the word, “man” meant strictly humankind.
KYAg6 TIL of the BIER Party, a political party in Vienna, Austria that calls for aptitude testing for politicians, as well as a ban on radlers.