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TIL that in 1913, a baby was mailed via Post Office's newly added Parcel Post service.

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d8dA8 TIL in 1991, actor Charlie Sheen watched the 1985 film Flower of Flesh and Blood and became convinced he was watching actual homicides and contacted the FBI. The Bureau initiated an investigation but closed it after the producers showed how they did it with special effects.
gng8 TIL all 100 nuclear reactors now operating in the U.S. were built on or before 1977
QJr9E TIL: Saskatchewan (Canada) regularly holds criminal trials in their local indigenous Cree language, with Cree-speaking judges, prosecutors, and lawyers
vPPPR TIL that Charrúa people were the indigenous people of Uruguay and the surrounding areas. In 1831 the first president of Uruguay, Fructuoso Rivera, organized a campaign to eradicate the Charrúas. They are now considered ethnically extinct.
1aGPW TIL that SETI scientists believed that the chances for finding intelligent extraterrestrial life were far greater than initially expected, since Earth developed two intelligent species - humans, and dolphins.