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TIL the USPS has a rule that full-service mailbox carrier signal flags should require no more than 2 pounds of force to raise and lower.

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6ENo8 TIL a recent study showed that subjects preferred to give themselves electric shocks rather than occupy themselves with their own thoughts for 15 minutes. Most people seem to prefer to be doing something rather than nothing, even if that something is negative
N7eVe TIL in 1996 Tonya Harding, by then already a scandalous figure from the 1994 skating incidents, gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed at a bar in Portland, and was credited with saving her life.
6gwW TIL That 70’s Show takes place between the year 1976 and 1979, but Christmas happens 5 times in the series.
yjoe TIL the U.S. has 115,000 janitors, 83,000 bartenders, 323,000 restaurant servers, and 80,000 heavy-duty truck drivers with bachelor’s degrees
4kpKR TIL : Spiro Agnew was the highest US official to receive a felony