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

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9wxeD TIL about the Gnomes of Wrocław. In the 1980s people in the Polish city began painting gnomes over Soviet propaganda. After the fall of the USSR, a sculptor was hired to place gnomes around the city to honor their history. Others joined in and now there are over 400 gnomes and an annual parade.
5V1Y9 TIL: That on December 19, 1983, Jodie Foster was detained by U.S. customs agents at Logan International Airport for possessing a single gram of cocaine. She was charged with a misdemeanor and placed on one year's probation.
RnG9 TIL that salamanders are often associated with fire in mythology because they tend to find shelter in rotting logs. When these logs would be used as firewood, the escaping salamanders would “magically” appear from the flames.
BrnKb TIL that zippers are the leading cause of penile injuries
peWQ TIL that the “Galileo” space probe was intentionally crashed into Jupiter at the end of its operational life to avoid contaminating Jupiter’s moons with bacteria.