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TIL Americans purchase approximately $6.5 billion in greeting cards each year. Birthday cards, followed by sympathy cards, are the most popular.

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yVNNe TIL that NASA named a moon mountain after Black mathematician and 'Hidden Figure' Melba Mouton
awvmL TIL Albert Anastasia, considered to be one of the deadliest criminals of all time, was sentenced to death for the murder of a longshoreman in 1921. In 1922 he won a retrial on a technicality and went on to become boss of the Gambino Family & Murder Inc. He was responsible for thousands of murders.
BraVb TIL in 1970 a 24-year-old doctorate student in computer planning filed suit seeking to void the Vietnam draft lottery on the grounds that the selection process did not produce truly random results, resulting in birth dates later in the year being drawn disproportionately early, and vice versa.
XEPLP TIL that in 1999, Furbies were banned from the National Security Agency's Maryland headquarters because it was feared the toys might repeat national security secrets.
woeJ1 TIL of Lazarus and Joannes Baptista Colloredo, Italian conjoined twins who toured freak shows in 17th-century Europe. As reported by Henri Sauval, Lazarus was sentenced to death for killing a man, but averted the execution by pointing out that this would also kill his innocent twin brother.