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TIL that during the Pony Express' 18 months of operation, it covered a distance equivalent to circling the Earth 30 times to deliver a total of 34,753 letters, and only lost one bag of mail.

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8WbZ TIL Mitsubishi once offered “0–0–0” financing (0% down,0% interest,$0 in payments the first year). Initially, sales leapt, but many buyers defaulted at the end of the grace period, leaving Mitsubishi with used cars for which they had received no money and were now worth less than they cost to build.
vP6dx TIL that each driver in the Indy 500 has to fill out a ballot for what type of milk they want on the podium if they win, per tradition. Emerson Fittipaldi chose orange juice
l704V TIL about a 1990 British sitcom about Adolf Hitler living next to a Jewish couple. A pilot episode for the show was actually produced and aired but shortly after got cancled.
Qv7E TIL As a joke, Pablo Escobar asked one of his men to bring him a cup of coffee and quietly popped an Alka-Seltzer. Escobar accused his bodyguard of poisoning him and ordered his men to tie the man up and point a machine gun at him for ten minutes while he begged for his life
dDD1B TIL Dos Equis’ “Most Interesting Man In The World” campaign was inspired by “The man in the Hathaway shirt” ads that ran in the 1950’s by world famous advertiser David Ogilvy