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TIL Police officers are blue because they were originally surplus US army uniforms after the civil war

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owVA [TIL] the Mongol Empire installed empire-wide messenger/postal stations 15-40 miles apart, stocked with food and fresh mounts that required passports for use, allowing for communication over the largest empire in history
1amwO TIL about Dorothy Levitt, one of the first British female racing drivers. In her column for women she advised women on a car to buy, how to dress while driving, and items to bring, including gloves, an extra handkerchief, a clean veil, a powder-puff, hair-pins, a hand mirror, chocolates, and a gun.
7r8jp TIL that the Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue” was written by Shel Silverstein.
oRO9r TIL that ingredients shown on packagings are written in order from the most to the least of it
R5REw TIL about William Sitgreaves Cox a junior officer aboard the USS Chesapeake who was court martialed for leaving his command when he assisted his wounded captain below decks. Since all other senior officers were wounded, he had become the commanding officer by default, unbeknownst to him.