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TIL that animals don't just go into a long sleep during hibernation...

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XEGgQ TIL The Privy Council of Elizabeth I of England marked letters that needed to be delivered quickly with a rough drawing of a gallows on the address panel. Sometimes the drawing included a body hanging from the gallows.
0wo65 TIL that “TurboTax Free” is not actually free, but “TurboTax Free File” actually IS free (if you make under 36k). This was done to purposefully mislead the public into paying for a service that should be free according to the IRS.
KO4Q9 TIL about an experiment of transferring a 700 MB file via three delivery methods to determine which was the fastest: A carrier pigeon with a microSD card, a car with a USB Stick, or a Telstra ADSL line. The pigeon won the race; the car came in second; the internet transfer did not finish.
5VeA8 TIL, at tax originally levied in 1898 during the Spanish-American War was in effect until 2006.
GYoyQ TIL food delivery services (like Doordash) secretly inflate the prices of food listed on their menus