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TIL People Used to Send Children Through the US Mail

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nWm8W TIL that Mario & Luigi met Inspector Gadget on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
0dy8v TIL of the Turpan water system, an ancient network of thousands of hand dug wells and 5000 km of underground canals built under the Taklaman desert to channel groundwater to the Oasis city of Turpan, used to irrigate agriculture and provide water to the many caravans traveling the Silk Road.
ANJx7 TIL all about the criminal Ed Gein and how his crimes inspired many famous horror movies, like The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Psycho!
5A6D TIL Red Lobster lost $3.3 million dollars during a 7 week promotion in 2003. Each restaurant started losing money on the third plate of crab legs served.
N7d4P TIL two nurses, hired within months of each other to work the same shift on the same floor in the same Florida hospital found out that they were actually long-lost sisters from Korea who had been separated for almost 40 years