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TIL junk mail companies are charged more money if you send their mail back.

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EX9o TIL: Actor Jon Hamm taught future co-actress Ellie Kemper, when she was in the eighth grade.
YrYr TIL During the campaign of 1920, President Warren G. Harding was accused of making up a word: “normalcy.” When asked if he instead meant “normality,” Harding responded “I have looked for ‘normality’ in my dictionary and I do not find it there. 'Normalcy’, however, I did find, and it is a good word.”
089y TIL that it was after Christiano Ronaldo got expelled from school for throwing a chair at a teacher that he decided to devote his life to playing soccer.
xVlWg TIL about the "Impossible Literacy Test of 1964" that was given in Louisiana to those who wanted to vote. The test is to be taken in less than 10 minutes, the questions were intentionally vague and obtuse and if you failed, you couldn't vote. It was intentionally used to disenfranchise voters.
mWlY TIL One out of every 21 New Yorkers is a millionaire.