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TIL: the United States Postal Service photographs every piece of mail it processes. In 2O13, it took more than 16O Billion photographs.

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GYgGG TIL that when Bill Gates made a program to schedule students' classes in his shcool, he modified the program to put himself in classes with "a disproportionate number of interesting girls."
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