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TIL The U.S.A delivers mail using "Postal Donkeys" in some hard to reach areas.

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b6Yd0 TIL more than 100 Greenlandic inuit women have reported getting birth control involuntarily
b69bN TIL that the 1970s disco mega-hit "More, More, More" was recorded in Jamaica by American porn star Andrea True. She was there to film some commercials, but a diplomatic dispute with the USA forced her to choose between spending her pay there or forfeiting it. She decided to pay for a demo record.
k7dB TIL: Private John Parr was the first British soldier to die in World War 1. Almost a million more Brits died, and the last was Private George Edwin Ellison, just 90 minutes before the Armistice in 1918. In an unplanned coincidence, their graves face each other just 15ft apart at the same cemetery
w1DP TIL that human feces is not made primarily of undigested plant material or fiber, as commonly thought. Bacteria make up to 60% of the dry mass of human feces.
9Jgr TIL Drugmakers and Internet companies link U.S. pharmacy records with online accounts to target ads to people based on their health conditions and the prescription drugs they buy.