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TIL that a guy filed a change-of-address form to the USPS where he changed the address of the UPS headquarters and got all their mail sent to his apartment. It took three months before this was discovered.

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ep0Lb TIL about an expiriment called "the wave" conducted at a highschool in california, that explained why the germans around the Nazis didnt do anything about them murdering and persecuting their neighbors and family during world war 2.
9YOLM TIL that in the US the Rod of Asclepius, symbol of the deity associated with healing and medicine, is often confused with the staff of the god Hermes, the caduceus.
NXk6Q TIL that the Katip Sumat uprising in the 19th century was the ever-recorded jihad war involving Vietnam
D1D1j TIL Creedence Clearwater Revival released 3 albums in a single year (1969), all reaching Top 10 on the US Billboard chart. That same year they also toured incessantly, played Woodstock, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
68vQ TIL: In the USA, credit card companies are shifting credit card fraud liability to merchants if they don’t switch to chip card POS terminals by October 2015.