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TIL about Creme Puff, a cat that holds the world record for longest recorded lifespan at 38 years and 3 days.

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ZXvB TIL Four AH-64 Apaches helicopters were destroyed by mortar fire in Iraq, because US soldiers took pictures of them landing at their base, and posted the pictures to the internet. But the pictures were geotagged, enabling the enemy to determine the exact location of the Apaches.
neWyr TIL that your US mailbox is the property of the US postal service; no one else is allowed to use it. FedEx exists because of a bike courier exception for "extremely urgent" mail. USPS has forced Equifax to pay a $30,000 fine for FedEx use that was not extremely urgent.
8GNP TIL Data for the 1890 US Census was entered on punchcards & was processed by an electromechanical tabulating machine designed/built by the company known today as IBM; it took six weeks to release the results as opposed to the 1880 census, which took seven years.
RLLj TIL police departments can and will refuse to hire someone because their IQ is too high.
lrkB TIL pigs are immune to snake venom, a trait shared with mongoose, honey badgers, and hedgehogs