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TIL For a brief period in 1930 in the US you could purchase special postage stamps to have your letters delivered via zepplin

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v1nPL TIL that origami as we know it today was due to Akira Yoshizawa who, in his own estimation created more than 50,000 models of which only a few hundred were presented as diagrams in his 18 books; he lived in poverty from 1937 until 1954, when he published his first monograph and got his first exhibit
vPKkB TIL that bed bugs have no courtship rituals. What they have, instead, is a type of mating behavior called traumatic insemination. That is, a male will simply climb onto a female, stab her in the side of her body with his hypodermic penis, and release his sperm into her body cavity.
Ke7E TIL a man in Florida has collected about 15 million golf balls from golf course water hazards in the past 14 years, selling them for up to $2 each.
E54o TIL Sierra Nevada Brewing won the 2010 U.S. EPA “Green Business of the Year” award. The brewery is run by solar energy, processes used cooking oil for biodiesel in delivery trucks, is the largest buyer of organic hops in the U.S., and over 99% of the plant’s solid waste is diverted from landfill.
6EL4l TIL Paul Kruger, longtime statesman and president of the South African Republic, was a flat earther.