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TIL of Owney, a mascot of the USPS. He was considered to be good luck by postal railway clerks, since no train he rode on was ever in a wreck.

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WkryN TIL about the noise marines in Warhammer 40K. Chaos Marines with guitars
D66r TIL table beer was served in Belgian schools until the 1980s. It has been proposed to re-introduce this low alcohol beer (via http://ift.tt/2w7Pmvg
X0Obj TIL: California Town Brings in 40,000 Tourists for a Frog Jumping Festival
4Xyr5 TIL: of the Church of Universal Suffrage. A religion in the United States that believes all U.S. election days are a religious holiday, legally allowing all members to request ballots by mail.
YVOZ TIL that Egyptians didn’t use slave labor to build the pyramids - the builders were actually volunteers and were buried in the tomb if they died while building it.