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TIL In 2003, a man mailed himself to Texas from New York

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emZE TIL That there is an currently an effort by scholars to educate people about the upcoming 25th anniversary of June 4th Tiananmen Square massacre and to protest the Chinese attempts to erase this event from history.
wkLP TIL There is a one-hole “golf course” just meters south of the Korean DMZ which is surrounded on three sides by minefields, and there are reports that at least one shot exploded a land mine.
W74Z8 TIL that Plants Emit Ultrasonic “Screams” When Stressed and Scientists Recorded Them.
ZaDD TIL Donald Crowhurst committed suicide after attempting to fake a solo circumnavigation of the globe. His decent into insanity while alone at sea for 8 months was captured in the chilling ships logs he left behind.
woeB7 TIL about mail jumping, which is a way of delivering mail by jumping off a moving boat to a dock, putting mail into a mailbox, retrieving the outgoing mail, and then jumping back onto the moving boat. The USPS uses this method to deliver mail to houses on Geneva Lake from June 15 until September 15.