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TIL: Back in 2009 FedEx signed a contract with USPS to accept their mail. It's called Smartpost

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b6Z1E TIL our brains paralyze our muscles while we’re dreaming so we don’t physically act out what we’re doing in our dreams. Fascinating.
5xN8 TIL Liam Neeson only agreed to sign on for Taken 3 “as long as nobody gets taken”
RX7Q TIL That in 2005, Fall Out Boy Tried to Release a Song About the Trappings of Fame Titled “I’m David Ruffin and These are the Temptations” Until Their Lawyers Intervened. The Song was Renamed “Our Lawyers Made Us Change the Name of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued”
loxV7 TIL John Steinbeck’s dog, Toby, ate his manuscript of Of Mice and Men. There was no other draft. Steinbeck said of the incident, “I was pretty mad but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically. I didn’t want to ruin a good dog for a ms (manuscript), I’m not sure is good at all.”
YG4r TIL that during the Cannes Film Festival screening of the disturbing French film Irréversible, over 200 audience members walked out in disgust, and several reportedly required medical attention; those that stayed gave the film a 5-minute standing ovation.