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TIL that in 1959 the United States Postal Service tried delivering mail with a cruise missile

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XER6Q TIL there is a group of human mutant who are virtually resistant to HIV infection. They have a mutation called CCR5-Δ32 which make their T-Cells impervious to HIV
MaA7 TIL there is a group which offers free cover-up tattoos to victims of human trafficking, who are sometimes tattooed with large barcodes by their captors.
D1eOe TIL The Black Panthers started what later became U.S.'s School Breakfast Program which feeds nearly 13 million students every day.
Br0Dx TIL Mercer Island is an Island in Lake Washington near Seattle. It is the most populated island in a lake within the United States.
ZOPQ TIL that John Lithgow’s childhood babysitter was Coretta Scott King (wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and a hugely accomplished activist in her own right)