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TIL United States Postal Service vehicles don’t have license plates

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b9VNj TIL Cats were often mascots on Navy ships in WWII. They kept the rodent population down and improved morale for the crew!
mxNOM TIL that Stockholm syndrome is not a real syndrome, and cannot be found in any clinical psychology textbooks (DSM-5 etc). The term has achieved its widespread fame almost solely due to media oversimplification of complex psychological phenomena.
R7mmw TIL The 3 Stooges shot a pilot called Jerks of All Trades in 1949 intended as a weekly sitcom where the Stooges would try a different job/business every week. Columbia Pictures claiming the TV series would compete with their two-reels threatened to cancel their contract so the show was abandoned.
gMVnb TIL The Mesopotamian Empire and the Babylonian Empire were the first civilizations to introduce the use of sanitary sewerage system.
rlAw TIL That the FBI responded to MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech by labeling him a major enemy of the US, while the Norwegian Nobel Committee responded by granting him the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.