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Til when the USPS can't decipher bad handwriting, a facility in Utah comes to the rescue

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QJdwa TIL that the chemotherapy drug Paclitaxel, used to treat breast cancer (amongst other things) is a plant alkaloid derived from the "Happy Tree"
xVKyb TIL King Tutankhamun was mummified with an erection. It broke off soon after his discovery.
9Bl7 TIL the former ruler of Dubai said “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel.”
N7BM TIL a Massachussets judge ordered a mentally ill woman to have an abortion and be sterilized against her wishes.
xVrow TIL: The white man in this famous photo, Peter Norman is wearing the badge of Olympic Project for Human Rights, protesting racial injustice. He was later ostracized by the Olympic committee and his home country Australia to the point where he couldn't even get a job.