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TIL People Used to Send Children Through the US Mail

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VBmDm TIL that The Dead Zone, in which Christopher Walken, the clairvoyant protagonist, attempts and fails to assassinate a presidential candidate with a rifle at a campaign rally, was written by Stephen King.
loQaN TIL: Canadian researchers have just identified what they say is the first case of Cancer (Osteosarcoma) in a dinosaur. It's diagnosis only took 75 million years!
J1DGk TIL that rural women in Burundi greet each other with a complex musical ritual called 'akazehe'
X0Mek TIL that men used to wear heels long before women started wearing them.
Z8kYY TIL dogs and cats are responsible for 25 to 30 percent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the United States. That equates to roughly 64 million tons of carbon dioxide per year.