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TIL the smallest US post office is in the middle of the Florida Everglades, the Ochopee Post Office - it was originally a 7x8' shed for a tomato farm!

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D7Ng TIL that Aztecs took two showers a day and used flowers as soap and cleaned their mouth with them as well. The Spaniards at the time avoided water because it was thought water on your skin made you more susceptible to the plague and they used urine to clean their mouths and teeth.
oRYe7 TIL about myco-architecture--an ongoing project at NASA ARC to prototype fungi that would grow into usable habitats on Mars. Once fully grown, the fungi would be baked. The project aims to reduce weight carried on rockets when compared to the typically envisaged metal-and-glass buildings.
MeAe0 TIL Polo player Adolfo Cambiaso has cloned his best horse, Cuartetera, 14 times, and even swaps between the clones during a game
EgZ67 TIL, while The Master Golf Tournament tickets cost between $100 to $140, they resell easily for over $10,000.
9YVGp TIL that nearly every tall, skinny, awkwardly moving horror monster was played by one guy. This includes the leper from It, the titular character from Mama, the Crooked Man from the Conjuring, and even one of the white walkers from Game of Thrones