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

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69MMQ TIL that Colombia's "War of a Thousand Days" (1899-1902) was one of Latin America's bloodiest civil wars, resulting in over 100,000 deaths in just three years due to a conflict between the Conservative and Liberal parties.
wo5QP TIL of the Siloam tunnel in Jerusalem, a 533 meter (1749 feet) long tunnel from ca. 700 BC and the oldest known tunnel in which two teams started in opposite ends and meeting in the middle.
pYR4Z TIL that Vermont not only wasn’t one of the original 13 colonies, but that it was its own country for a few years.
AD5gn TIL when Stan Lee was designing Spider-Man, his publisher told him "Stan, that is the worst idea I have ever heard. First of all, people hate spiders, so you can’t call a book Spider-Man. Secondly he can’t be a teenager—teenagers can only be sidekicks. And third, he can’t have personal problems.
LkNYP TIL guys who have sex at least twice a week are half as likely to die from heart disease.