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TIL Some People Used the Postal Service to 'Mail' Their Children | HISTORY

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9Y0AG TIL cartoonist Otto Eppers was charged with attempted suicide after surviving a jump off of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1910. A judge dismissed the charge commenting “Well, he seems very much alive, doesn't he?”
jNXeR TIL Blackbeard was from North Carolina.
AZlB TIL when filming the chewing tobacco scene in The Sandlot, several of the kids actually got sick on the ride and were really throwing up
M9rK TIL that the American Psychiatric Association officially banned its members from commenting on a public figure’s mental health without examining them. The policy is known as the Goldwater rule.
LmGd TIL particles of your poop can be sent to a company that will sequence and analyze your bacteria data for under $100