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TIL: Before the US Post Master General specifically made it illegal, two children were successfully ‘mailed’ via the postal service in 1913.

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4kM4a TIL the first thing the one-armed John Lind did the moments after he was finished with his term as Minnesota’s Governor was go to a local newspaper and punch the face of an editor who had questioned his loyalty to the US during his term.
JYek8 TIL that if someone is more than $2,500 behind in child support payments, they are unable to get a US Passport
yQ9me TIL The Batman movies left out The Joker for 19 years. He appeared in Batman (1989 - Jack Nicholson) and reappeared in The Dark Knight (2008 - Heath Ledger) .
x6EE5 TIL that the desert scenes in the movie Ishtar were filmed in the actual Sahara Desert, instead of the Southwestern U.S., because Columbia's parent company Coca-Cola had money in Morocco it could not repatriate.
PPEO TIL Martin Luther, father of the Protestant Reformation, once said; “Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”