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TIL In Iceland, you can hand-draw- a map on a piece of mail without an address, and it will still make it to it’s destination.

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b66YE TIL when a female porcupine is ready to mate she climbs a tree and vocalizes loudly like a cat. This mating call attracts the males, which then fight brutally with each other. It's not unusual to see a winning, mating male with a hundred or so quills of rival males' tails stuck in his face.
WkGwd TIL that the first American to die in Vietnam was actually murdered by a fellow soldier in 1956. Richard B. Fitzgibbon Jr. gave candy to local children when he bumped into a drunk colleague that shot him on sight. It took 43 years for his name to be added to the Vietnam War Memorial.
j6kGX TIL Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll started a show on Chicago's WGN Radio in 1924 called Sam 'n' Henry. Successful, but wanting more money, they moved to WMAQ radio and renamed the same show Amos 'n' Andy. The two were on NBC and CBS radio for 28 years.
E1ard TIL when taking an oath of office, Kentucky officials have to swear they've never fought a duel with deadly weapons.
wVeE TIL that children being born are the first in two centuries to have a lower life expectancy than their parents, and the cause of it is obesity