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TIL USPS trucks get 10 Miles to the gallon and are over 25 years old

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7raLX TIL that between the years of 1995 and 2003 the mayor of Bogotá, Columbia hired mimes to ridicule traffic violators in the streets in an effort to reduce chaotic driving. Traffic fatalities decreased 50% as a result.
5N7p TIL that Patrick Stewart’s son, Daniel, plays Picard’s son in The Inner Light, in his alternative life on Kataan.
pK8Q TIL in WW2 the Germans had a secret base in Norway developing nuclear weapons until a small group of Norwegian commandos blew it up in the middle of the winter.
Rj0w TIL That 3D cameras aren’t a modern thing but have been around since the 1800’s and there are loads of 3D WW1 photos.
R5r5a TIL that, in the 1870’s, Oscar Wilde was madly in love with a young woman named Florence Balcome for two years, only to lose her to author Bram Stoker