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TIL the United States Postal Service is the single largest employer of veterans (22% of the postal workforce) and nearly a third of the veterans are disabled.

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Oo5xa TIL that adult cats will meow at humans as cats don't meow at other cats. They have different ways of communicates to other cats verses humans.
DQ5Er TIL of the 80's Japanese punk band 'Hanatarash', famous for their live shows. Before being banned by most venues they had used a machete to cleave a dead cat, incidents with circular saws, used excavators to tear down venues, and at one point threatened to throw a molotov cocktail into the crowd
9Ypvm TIL a region in Brazil is home to the remnants of two native tribes, consisting of four and five people, respectively, who “speak mutually unintelligible languages, but are linked by marriage,” as well as “an unknown man who lives alone and is thought the be the last survivor of a different tribe.”
lyXN TIL that Nebraska is a triply landlocked state: it touches no ocean, the states it borders touch no ocean, and the states they border touch no ocean.
1avg7 TIL that MTV officially started broadcasting 38 years ago on August 1, 1981 and the first music video played was "Video Killed the Radio Star"