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TIL when introduced, there was a conspiracy saying the creation Zip Codes was masked Communism made “to depersonalize or dehumanize” Americans

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b9BJ4 TIL that U.S. Postal Service regulations originally stated that mail deliveries be made "as frequently as the public convenience may require". Residential customers received mail two or three times a day until 1950 and some businesses received mail up to five times a day.
xjZk TIL that Hitler tore up the German constitution after he declared the burning of the Reichstag as a terrorist operation that allowed him to kill his enemies, wage war and is widely seen as a false flag operation.
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